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...casts his vote for the Col de la Traversette, but analyzes 30 different books that have proposed no fewer than twelve different Alpine passes for Hannibal's crossing. The most popular ones: Mont Genevre, Mont Cenis (Napoleon's theory), and the treacherous Col Clapier. Last week a pint-sized re-creation of Hannibal's horde wound its way through the French Alps toward Clapier pass, bent on proving that Hannibal could have used that pass, elephants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Elephant Walk | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...July 20), scrawled a "confession" for a Dublin Sunday newspaper. "I'm neither dead, dying, drunk nor dotty," wrote he. ". . . It is true, however, that I am an alcoholic." Why does he tipple? "First, because I like the stuff. Secondly, because I like company, and thirdly, because a pint of orange or lemon juice is twice the price of a pint of stout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 27, 1959 | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

ROONEY. A PINT, BARES MARRIAGE TO A FIFTH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Aging Lion | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

FREE FOOD OFFER is being made by A. & P. for first time in Baltimore area to counter competitive grocery chains' trading stamps, may be extended into other highly competitive areas. A. & P. mails coupons for 2-lb. box of sugar worth 25?and pint of mayonnaise worth 35?to all listed in city directories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...longer doff their hats to squires or mumble that the good things of life "are not for the likes o' me," and more and more of them, in their work clothes, move from the stand-up bar to the saloon bar adjoining, where for a penny a pint more, they can sit at a table. "Before the war," says a pubkeeper, "they wouldn't have dared. Apart from the cold stares they would have received, their mates would have ridiculed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Status War | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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