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Family Man. Jolly and chipper, and carrying a bamboo cane, the President's mother thoroughly enjoyed her first flight. At the capital, she was greeted by her son and granddaughter, then stepped into a swarm of cameramen. A little flustered at first, she quickly regained composure, said to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk & Action | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Spark plugs of FAO in its birthing period were Canada's able Ambassador to Washington, Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, and jolly, pipe-smoking Frank Lidgett McDougall, an Australian often called "the father of nutrition" because of his long efforts to make that study a science. McDougall incessantly deplores economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: For the Two-Thirds | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Not until the stroke of noon on the second day of the conference did Winston Churchill arrive in theater-like Central Hall, Westminster. He made his entrance with the grandeur of royalty. In front, with mincing step, walked Party Chairman Ralph Assheton. Behind came a retinue of Cabinet Ministers. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Win with Winnie | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

As usual when victory is in the air. Winston Churchill was as jolly and prankish as a boy on a picnic. Touring the conquered Siegfried Line, the Prime Minister gaily flicked ashes on the futile, grey-green, concrete dragon's teeth which Hitler had set up to keep tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Crossings Ahead | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

The State Department was buzzing with vim & vigor last week, and its collective face was wreathed in smiles of jolly good fellowship. Painters slapped pistachio green on the drab cream walls of State's drafty old home on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue. A panting porter lugged away Cordell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Team | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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