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...house for railroad men, Natalie catches her breath occasionally to indicate that she is not long for this whirl. Meanwhile, Kate Reid plays Mama as a sleazy old bagful of Southern comforts who snaps like a lizard whenever Alva mentions striking out alone to taste the high life of Noo Awlyuns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Belle Wringer | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...Noo Candidate." Into the imbroglio dropped the British Fascist Party, a gang of racists who decided to bring the color question into the by-election campaign with a vengeance, even though Gordon Walker and his Tory opponent, Leyton Engineer Ronald Buxton, tried to soft-pedal it. Nastily and noisily, the neo-Nazis invaded Gordon Walker's first campaign rally in Leyton, were only repulsed after Gordon Walker threw a right uppercut and Labor's burly Defense Minister Denis Healey hurled the Fascist leader, Colin Jordan, off the platform into the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Battle of Leyton Hall | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...Times of London's words, "ready to pounce at the drop of a swastika," no Fascists showed up-though Spoiler Jordan sent an agent in blackface to the Leyton town hall, where the interloper declared himself, in crude parody of Negro vernacular, to be "de noo candidate, Walker Gordon." And though everyone was protesting that race was not an issue in Leyton, the BBC hastily canceled a television screening of a play called Fable, which shows a future Britain ruled by colored people, in which whites are the victims of minority discrimination. Scheduled for election eve, the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Battle of Leyton Hall | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...Thanksgiving Day last week, Harry's celebrated the 50th anniversary of its opening, and the sentiment flowed as freely as the booze. It seemed that oldtimers had come from all over the world to 5 Rue Daunou ("Just tell the taxi driver 'Sank Roo Doe Noo' ") to pay homage to the good old days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Today, It's Politics | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...center of law and science where your book [the Koran] will be studied." To fulfill this dream, a wealthy widow of Fez commissioned Karaouine mosque, which took 278 years to complete. The mosque was already famed as a university when the first European university was established in Bologna about noo. Begun as a theological seminary, Karaouine soon taught 8,000 students everything from medicine to geography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Renaissance in Fez | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

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