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...York refurbished a special pier for Khrushchev-but still I suppose this can't be called giving him the quay to the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1960 | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

Roving Assignment. In Salt Lake City, convicts publishing the Utah state prison newspaper abruptly changed the masthead listing of Escaped Editor Quay Kilburn from "Editor in Chief" to "Editor at Large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...case, a gondolier rashly falls in love with a beautiful English girl whose snobbery is so intense that it simply does not occur to her that a mere gondolier could aspire to be her lover. When the uninformed Venetian finally begins to understand, he swills wine, falls off a quay and is drowned, but not before the reader wishes that he had taken his painted oar to the girl in Liberty silks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Grand Guignoi | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

Roving Assignment. In Salt Lake City, convicts publishing the Utah state prison newspaper abruptly changed the masthead listing of escaped Editor Quay Kilburn from "Editor in Chief" to "Editor at Large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 6, 1958 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...smokestack never had a chance. As she zigzagged into Algerian waters last week a French destroyer escort hove in sight, ordered her to heave to. Said the French commander, peeping under the hatches: "A floating arsenal." When the old vessel's contraband cargo was laid out on the quay at Mers-el-Kebir, the French army found sufficient mortars, machine guns, rifles and pistols to equip 3,000 guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Floating Catch | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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