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In London, the seventh Duke of Wellington, great-grandson of the hawk-nosed original, dutifully opened an exhibition of modern sculpture with an appropriate speech, but midway raised his own gallinaceous nose and broke out: "And now about modern sculpture-I really cannot make out what it is all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Formative Years | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

The Zielezinskis, who are Poles, arrived a fortnight ago with their two baby boys, two suitcases and nothing else. Dark-haired, snub-nosed Marian had been a German prisoner for four years; he met his wife in a Salzburg D.P. camp. At Farmer Rhinehart's, they would get not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRANTS: Not Just Numbers | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

High Gear. In the first quarter of 1948, the British automobile industry nosed out the U.S. as the world's largest exporter of passenger cars. The three-month score: Great Britain, 56,812; the U.S., 55,444. (During March, Britain's carmakers, whose export quota is 75% of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Power and experience kept Winthrop and Eliot in the undefeated ranks of the House crew competition yesterday afternoon. The Puritan eight nosed out Adams and Kirkland, finishing in 4:35, while Eliot's machine beat a dogged Leverett crew in 4:34.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritan, Elephant, Bellboy Eights Triumph on Charles | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

Winthrop nosed out the Dunster eight by about the width of a dirty sweat sock yesterday in the most closely contested intramural crew heat of the day. The margin of victory was so small that even the winning crow, clocked at 4:28, was in some doubt as to which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons, Eliot And Puritans Win in Crew | 5/6/1948 | See Source »

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