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...Bush, the President's grandfather. With his white hair, benign tremor and penchant for quoting the Romans, Byrd seems more like a Senator from the 19th century than one from the 21st. He has never seen MTV. He refers to the camera in the Senate chamber as "the eee-leck-tronic eye." But due to his fierce opposition to the Iraq war, Byrd at 85 has become an Internet icon with a rash of young and liberal admirers, which is ironic given that Byrd fought civil rights in the '60s and, as is often noted, briefly joined the Ku Klux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lionized in Winter | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...General Sir Claude Auchin-leck told the Indian Parliament that the Japs were attacking in considerable strength. Same day Admiral Mountbatten said the attackers were only "raiding parties." Pundits everywhere were stumped. Said one U.S. radio commentator: "This looks serious." A columnist: "Professional military men . . . are not fretting over some gains in those border mountains." Republican Congresswoman Jessie Sumner (who wants to abandon the war in Europe, make MacArthur supreme anti-Japanese commander) said "military authorities" had told her that many U.S. troops had no guns to fight the Japs at Imphal (where there are no U.S. troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: The Admiral Could Not Laugh | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Chairman, S. W. Leck, Irene McKinney; W. Russell, Eta Sweet; J. D. Martindale. H. C. Withers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR SPREAD BOX ARRANGEMENTS STATED | 6/14/1923 | See Source »

Javelin Throw.--Greenidge, Kernan, Leck, Potter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 56 ATHLETES CHOSEN TO MEET YALE ON SATURDAY | 6/13/1923 | See Source »

Javelin Throw.--Greenidge, Kernan, and Leck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPETITORS CHOSEN FOR I.C.A.A.A.A. MEET | 5/23/1923 | See Source »

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