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...Labor's Wilson, the Conservatives' Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and the Liberals' Jo Grimond, stood together in reverent silence before the catafalque. They must have recognized the Tightness of the scene, for in this very hall and on the very spot where Churchill lay Simon de Montfort had called together Britain's first Parliament 700 years before almost to the day. In its long history the hall had seen prodigies, from the Court of William Rufus in 1099 to the trials of Guy Fawkes and his companions in the Gunpowder Plot, and to the condemnation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Requiem for Greatness | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

Once there was a poor little rich man. His name was Armand de Montfort-Lamoury, and he was a duke. Armand had everything: a Paris town house and a Daimler town car, pressed duck at the Tour d'Argent and Bellinger '47 to wash it down. Still, he lacked The Perfect Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bubbles & Bemelmanship | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

That one refers to Mrs. Montfort's Boardinghouse, a fleabag theatrical hotel, which was Allen's first miserable beach head on Broadway's Great White Way. It was 1914, World War I had top billing, and Allen's arrival in New York had "created as much commotion as the advent of another flounder at the Fulton Fish Market." But the day would come (The Little Show and Three's a Crowd) when Broadway would be Allen's alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sullivan's Travels | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...seven to nine months the heifer or bull (castrated into a steer to hasten fattening) is sold to the feedlot operators or to farmers who also specialize in fattening cattle for market. In Warren Montfort's barn in Greeley, Colo., a huge, self-unloading truck moves unceasingly up and down the quarter-mile-long pens, pushing Montfort's special feed mixture into the troughs while a solid line of white faces eat their heads off. Says Montfort: "This is a factory. We manufacture beef and nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE GOLDEN CALF | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...play will probably be presented on Friday, December 6. The following have been given parts: Howard A. Cook '37, Laird McK. Ogle '37, T. M. deSaint Phalle '39, Peter L. Scott '38, Alexander M. Thackera '38, Richard Turner 1GB, Montfort S. Variell '37, and Sumner Willard '37. Howard R. Patch, Jr. '38 is stage director, and Monroe Stearns ocC is production manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac" Is Annual French Club Play | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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