Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starting Winthrop lineup: le, Cameron, T.; lt Wallace; lg, Lyon; c, Holt; rg, Holbrook; rt, Hosmer; re, Ways; qb, Cauch; lh, Cameron, R.; rh, Thayer; fb, Aloian...
...William Lyon Mackenzie King had represented Canada at international conferences ever since 1908. This year, before he finally retired, he wanted to attend just one more: the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in London (see FOREIGN NEWS). To be sure he made it, he had the conference postponed four months, until the August Liberal convention...
...Actor (Siritzky International) is the first film made by Sacha Guitry, France's scampish old do-it-all of stage & screen, since he was cleared of charges of collaborating with the Nazis. The movie was mildly applauded in Paris, but stirred up an anti-Guitry demonstration in Lyon (TIME, June 7). On its own account, it is worth little fuss of any kind. It is a tribute, redolent of grease paint, to Sacha's famed actor father . Lucien. The son's brittle wit shows to best advantage when he is dishing out impudence, irony and disillusionment. This...
Russia had had big consular staffs in the U.S. (40 in New York, 13 in San Francisco), and her representatives had been allowed complete freedom. But U.S. Consul Scott Lyon had a staff of only two in Vladivostok. Soviet officials trained floodlights on the consulate at night, refused to let the U.S. officials travel. The U.S. Office of Foreign Service referred to Vladivostok as the "end of the line" and, regarding the job's conditions as comparable in strain to the loneliness and frustration on a lightship, changed the consulate's staff every six months to be sure...
...opening day, the clear, crisp morning air throbbed with the wail of bagpipers from the grounds of Edinburgh Castle. By midafternoon, spectators had jammed the "Royal Mile" between Holyrood Palace and Edinburgh Castle to watch the ceremonial parade to dour St. Giles's Cathedral, led by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, in heraldic tabard, looking as if he had stepped off a playing card. In the cavernous cathedral, with a blast of trumpets, the festival was formally opened-a festival that would hear, before it was over, some 1,500 musicians, including seven orchestras, four choirs, four chamber...