Word: pilgrimate
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World War II had cut into the pilgrim business, and the Zamzam was signed over to foreign trade. Last March she set out from eastern U.S. ports for Alexandria, by the long route to South America and around the Cape of Good Hope. "Although Egypt is not at war," said the Zamzam's Captain William Gray Smith, before sailing from Jersey City, "she is considered a nonbelligerent ally of England and we could not take any chances...
What, a Bunyan on the Achilles heel of TIME? Your supposed portrait of John Milton (TIME, March 17) is believed by authorities (J. F. Marsh, G. C. Williamson, et al.) to be actually of [John Bunyan], the author of Pilgrim's Progress. Your cut showed but part of the picture; a staff and pilgrim's bottle are really in the left background, and what appears to be a representation of the risen Savior is in the upper right. The portrait belonged to Capel Lofft, who believing it to be of Milton, published an engraving...
...Prime Minister raised his glass and turned to the guest of honor, a man with a face gaunt and ascetic enough to be Bunyan's pilgrim-John G. Winant, the newly arrived U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Winston Churchill aimed his toast at the Ambassador, but he drank from his heart not to any man, not to any nation, but to the good issue of a three-dimensional battle: on, over, under the Atlantic waves...
King Ibn Saud, a man who has been credited with the strength of 40 men, and actually has 40 sons, is protected by an efficient police force. In pilgrim-packed Mecca last week they suddenly arrested on charges of plotting regicide one of the most notorious wastrels in the Near East. He was besotted Sherif Abdul Hamid, whose peccadilloes caused him to be cast off by his family. In Arabia, where the Sherif is considered a mental case, none was surprised when the King's police presently announced, after grilling six and killing one of the followers of Abdul...
...PILGRIM HAWK-Glenway Wes-cott-Harper...