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...into which he changed every evening during the war, when no one wore such a garment, are obdurate vestiges of dandyism. But the shocking London of the '708 was too much for the genteel and moral Irish Protestant, who had worked as an accountant and claimed to be kin to a baronet. He heard the Biblical and warlike voice of Marx. Its despotic sound, its subversiveness, its talk of the continuous war of classes, its protest against poverty, the passion of its economics, lastingly moved Shaw, for he was poor, came from an oppressed nation, had lost his religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: G.B.S.: 1856-1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...Hartford, 78, who with his 86-year-old brother, George L. (for Ludlum) Hartford, forged the links in the A & P's nation-girdling chain. The A & P is one of the great American family empires still bossed by the men who built it. The Hartfords and their kin still own 99.1% of the stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Circle & Gold Leaf | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...kin to World War II General Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rake's Progress | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Next day L'Aube woke up and apologized for its blooper. It had mixed up the biographies of new ECAdministrator William C. Foster, New York businessman and Republican, and still-militant U.S. Communist Boss William Z. Foster, no kin. Cried the Communist L'Humanité: the story was an insult to William Z. Foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What's in a Name? | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...Frosts had six in all: two sons, four daughters. They lost their first son when he was three, one daughter soon after birth. -No kin to Harvard's professor of history, Samuel Eliot Morison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pawky Poet | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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