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...familiar, stoop-shouldered hulk that a generation had come to know as the silhouette of greatness. Prime Minister Winston Churchill scowled as he emerged from the Queen Mary, took a firm grip on the rope handrail and eased himself across a gangplank to the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Navesink in New York Harbor. Once safely on board the cutter, he politely doffed his hat* to official U.S. meeters & greeters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: An Intimate Understanding | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...prize was in the smallest class (under $250,000), the Klamath River Bridge at Orleans, in Humboldt County, Calif. Other winners this year: the Dunnings Creek Bridge ($250,000 to $1,000,000) on the Pennsylvania Turnpike; and the Oceanic Bridge (drawbridge) over New Jersey's Navesink River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beautiful Bridges | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...cliff 200 feet above the sea stand the two towers of Navesink Lighthouse Station, near Atlantic Highlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ship-finder | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...dark, still night last week sentries guarded the lonely road to the Navesink station. No wisp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ship-finder | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...Navesink Lights, by Adelaide Morris, is a shiny landscape, containing a bathing pavilion, bridge, hill, road, river, castle, and autocar, cleverly executed in the suave and polished "naïve" manner, now vastly popular in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Independence Days | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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