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...Buenos Aires em bassy of Great Britain, which has long claimed the area in which the Argentines have been setting up bases, was not caught napping. Les Eclaireurs was soon joined by Her Majesty's frigate St. Austell Bay, off Deception Island, 600 miles south of Cape Horn. Signaled St. Austell Bay to Les Eclaireurs'. "To the Argentine Naval Minister. Welcome to the waters of Her Britannic Majesty." Replied Rear Admiral Olivieri: "To the captain of the British frigate St. Austell Bay: Welcome to the waters of the Argentine Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTARCTICA: Iceberg Manners | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...above) lies a developing theory of how the Administration should deal with Joe McCarthy. It will not try to clip an essential congressional right: examination of Government servants at any level of authority. But it will resist the abuse of this power by any congressional effort to horn in on the running of the Executive Branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Joe & the Administration | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

After eight seconds of this, the timer sounded his horn. Other cowboys closed in on the bucking sorrel, grabbed the halter and gave rangy (6 ft., 180 Ibs.) Bill Linderman a chance to swing safely to the ground. From the rodeo crowd came the happy hooting and hollering of people who know a good ride when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champion Cowboy | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Fraley is ... running a "manually operated handcar," you commit mayhem and drag railroad jargon about by the ears. As boy and man I've functioned as a boomer on 86 pikes as brass pounder, shack, tallow pot, gandy dancer, hoghead* and so forth, from Alaska to Cape Horn; and because I've worked on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad a short hitch, I am sure that a velocipede or "speeder" is not called a handcar on that streak of rust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...varying degrees, most of the other charm boys pattern themselves after Godfrey. His most faithful imitator (and occasional stand-in for Godfrey) is CBS's Robert Q. Lewis, 32, a slick-haired man who wears sharp suits and horn-rimmed glasses. His cast, like Godfrey's, sits at one side of the stage. In the Godfrey manner, Lewis chuckles interminably at his own gags, and talks heedlessly until he is cut off the air by the station break. But Robert Q. is not too proud to imitate other stars. A day after Charm Boy Garry Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Charm Boys | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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