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...little group of seven men and one woman who climbed aboard a plane early last month and set off for Moscow looked as nondescript as any lot of gawking sightseers. There was little old (69) Wilfred Burke, a colorless trade unionist whom rotation had made chairman of the Labor Party. Three others were hard-knuckled unionists: knobby Harry Earnshaw of the textile workers, big, handsome Harry Franklin of the railwaymen, shrewd, balding Sam Watson, a longtime battler of Communists in Durham's "Little Moscow" coal fields. And there was tall, leggy Dr. Edith Summerskill, onetime Minister of National Insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Curtain of Ignorance | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...working on a cover painting for TIME -such as this week's portrait of Burma's Premier U Nu- he likes to take a brushman's holiday and sketch faces elsewhere. One of his favorite hangouts is in the upper reaches of mid-Manhattan- a nondescript restaurant which is a popular early-morning gathering place for a strange group of customers that ranges from cab drivers and nightwatchmen to bookies and brokendown prizefighters. To these customers, who are either starting their day or ending their night, Guy is just a small man with exceedingly bright eyes, bushy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 30, 1954 | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...pertinent data about title, label, publisher and performers at his fingertips. "Viola Dixxy-yeah, two x's," he announced, "singing Everyone Is Saying. We heard this last week, but maybe it's worth listening again for the girl-new talent." He played a few bars of a nondescript song by a pleasant, commonplace voice. "The girl, that's all there is to it," said someone over the noise. "Doesn't she sound like Patti Page?" said another. "Yeah, maybe too much." After a chorus Rolontz lifted the needle. Music Editor Joe Martin (formerly London Records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Pick Winners | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...able to travel in both circles; thus, few men derive full benefit of both athletic and intellectual opportunities and facilities which the House offers. To be sure, there is a more or less nondescript middle group between these extremes, but it seems in general, that it composed of students on the fringe of either the athletic or intellectual circle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Shuns 'Party House' Reputation, Stressing Close Student-Tutor Relations | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

...presidential decree, all Argentine restaurants, even such famed luxury resorts as the grill rooms at the Plaza and the Alvear Palace Hotels in Buenos Aires, are required to list and serve the menú econímico. This 32? meal typically consists of uninspired soup, a snarl of spaghetti, nondescript fish and a tired banana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: One Meatball . . . | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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