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...would only blue the lot if 'e 'ad it all at once-so 'e rations 'im. Well, Old Joe 'adn't got no choice really. But although Sir Stafford cleared 'is debts for 'im, and gave 'im ?100 'e needn't 'ave, Old Joe 'asn't got a good word to say for Sir Stafford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Government by Governess | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Nows. In Franklin, N.H., the weekly Journal-Transcript announced that its staff was going on a ten-day vacation; but subscribers needn't worry about missing the news: next week's issue was already printed and ready for distribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 8, 1947 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...needn't have fretted on either count. The sun shone brightly over Buckingham Palace for their Majesties' second presentation garden party of the year. "It's a plummy peach of a day, isn't it?" said chic Peggy Douglas, wife of U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, in the diplomatic tea tent. As for curtsies, the 100-odd Americans mingled with the 5,000 Britons at the party found it hard to get close to royalty. Mrs. Adele Vercoe, who is an old hand at such functions, having lived in England on & off for years, managed a quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One of Those Things | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...Happened in Brooklyn (MGM) features Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante and Kathryn Grayson at the tops of their respective voices. It needn't have bothered, so far as the box office is concerned, to do anything more. What little more it does is nearly all to the good. Aside from an overdose of jokes about Brooklyn, everything about the picture is not only unobjectionable but, in a modest way, definitely enjoyable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...when amid the plaintiff's shrieks, The ruffianly defendant speaks-Upon the other side; What he may say you needn't mind-From bias free of every-kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pooh to a Callow Throstle | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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