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Died. Will Thorne, 88, Falstaffian British Laborite M.P. for 39 years, who spiced debates in Commons with protesting blasts on a football referee's whistle and stentorian encouragement (e.g., to Lady Astor during a hot discussion: "Stick it, lass, stick it!"); in London. A barber's assistant at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 14, 1946 | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

By an overwhelming vote (949-to-34), but with considerable reluctance, the Associated Press last week finally took in Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. Nobody sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. It was not that kind of an occasion.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Second the Motion | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Last week the U.S. Senate turned loose a bull in the Latin American china shop. He was Spruille Braden, now confirmed as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, a big, jolly, working democrat whose object was to smash the Western Hemisphere's dictatorial bric-a-brac.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Democracy's Bull | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

By the time the ball clubs reached Chicago for the fourth game, a bumper crop of 400 flip-flopping newsmen had made the Cubs 11-to-5 favorites again. Grimm's frisky Cubs seemed to have more life than the lifeless Tigers-even on the bench. Jolly Cholly got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TNT & Trumps | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Steve O'Neill, more confident than ever about his TNT, could go to Sunday Mass with no worldly intent to take an extra tug at his beads-in supplication for so mundane a thing as a World Series victory. Once again the Tigers were favorites, and Jolly Cholly slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TNT & Trumps | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

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