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Speaking for Drew were Mare Joseph and Frederick Aldrich; while Peter H. Clayton '50 and Lucian C. Pariato '50 up held the Debate Council's affirmative position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Bow to Drew in Dispute Over Labor Issue | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

Money Makes the Mare Go. After Bardoli, Patel became recognized as the Congress Party's chief organizer and disciplinarian. He checked up on what Gandhi's followers ate, drank and wore. He passed on the party lists in provincial elections. He approved party-sponsored legislation, and personally drafted much of it. No detail was too unimportant or sordid for Boss Patel. Recently he took charge of negotiations between the Congress Party Ministry in Bombay and the Western Indian Turf Association, which wanted to renew its license for the Bombay racetrack. Patel, who has never seen a horse race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Boss | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, a mosaic-walled mosque in a corner of the Old City, is Islam's third holiest shrine. From the Rock, Mohamed, led by the Angel Gabriel, ascended on el-Buraq, his eagle-winged mare with the human face, to visit the seven heavens of Islam. (Mohamed's footprint, judged by Mark Twain to be about size 18, is still pointed out to true believers; in the 12th Century it was shown as the footprint of Christ.) Here the muezzin's wail is still heard from the upper air, calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Gordon-Walker held that the song was unworthy of a great corporation. Asked Mr. A. Beverley Baxter (Wood Green, Unionist): "Then should we suppress Gilbert & Sullivan's 'A policeman's lot is not a happy one?'" Laughter. Mr. I. L. Orr-Ewin (Weston-super-Mare, Unionist): "Is it suggested that 'Don't go down the mine, Daddy' is the cause of low coal production?" Renewed laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dull Year of Hope | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

When the Warden heard about Prisoner Stiles's leisure-time project, he sent some Stiles drawings to nearby Mare Island naval base. The Navy offered tools and materials, later supplied a human guinea pig: 25-year-old Lieut. Howard Pollack, who had lost his right arm in the South Pacific campaign. Stiles, with Lieut. Pollack's cooperation, eventually developed an artificial hand which he claimed would tweeze, grip, poke, carry and press. A Stiles-equipped amputee might thus be able to bowl, play golf, pick up a pin, hold a cigaret, button his own sleeve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stiles's Hand | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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