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Georgia will close all State liquor stores, not only on V-day, but for two days thereafter. In Raleigh, N.C., the Allied

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready for V-Day? | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...Young Men's Christian Association, world's biggest international religious society for laymen, this week celebrates its 100th birthday. A fortnight earlier, the Y.M.C.A.'s grand old man had celebrated his 79th. John Raleigh Mott, during 56 years of intensive Y.M.C.A. activity, has become almost as much a symbol as the Y's red triangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Two Birthdays | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Number one man Jack Lynch, of V-12, went to three sets to defeat Tom Raleigh of Andover, 6-2, 9-11, 6-2. Second seeded Gene Sands, also of V-12, took his match from Kittleman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Defeats Andover Academy, 5-2 | 6/2/1944 | See Source »

Death in Jigtime. Curare's "poisonous reputation" began in 1595 when Sir Walter Raleigh sailed up the Orinoco and found the jungle Indians killing game with blow pipe darts dipped in black, tarry stuff (curare) cooked up from native plants (see cut). Its reputation was not improved when 19th-Century experimenters found that curare victims die from asphyxia caused by paralysis of their breathing muscles. Time: a few seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Useful Poison | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...Apropos of the frenly Raleigh spelynge letter] penned to Mrs. Gotch in 1898 (TIME, Nov. 15, Dec. 6). This is another little gem written [by Oxford's Sir Walter] at the time of the Boer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

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