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...boarded the 10:35 a.m. at Newport for London in fine fettle. "I can feel the blood stirring in my veins," he said, "but I'd rather lose than see Labor get a small majority." In the light of the returns (up to that point), Bevan obviously felt that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We Can't Run Away | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...father was a traveling salesman; his mother died when he was only four. Brought up by stepparents on a Maine farm near Newport, he gathered maple sap, milked cows. Milking was valuable training for a handshaking politician, Douglas says: "The hand movement is about the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Making of a Maverick | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...Nicol. The court held that the marriage was legal beyond doubt, that the girl, being 23 years old, had every right to enter into a marriage contract. A letter from the Abbe to Lucile was introduced in evidence. It said, in part, "You must remain free . . . the marriage at Newport means nothing . . . Nothing obliges you to marry him . . . May le bon Dieu help you in your decision." In the court's opinion, this "constituted not advice, but an order." The facts, Judge Caron. found, clearly established that both mother and priest had refused to let Jacob Nicol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Village Juliet | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Searchers at Sunapee hoped to reach the top of the mountain by 5:30 a.m., and CAA and Newport Airport airplanes were planning to join the search at dawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman's Plane Overdue; Search Parties Scour N.E. | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Sunapce residents said early this morning that a plane flying up from the direction of Newport. N.H., had crashed near the top of Bald Mountain. They described the sound of the engine as more like a commercial plane than a light plane. This description might tally with Moses 'plane, the CAA said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman's Plane Overdue; Search Parties Scour N.E. | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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