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A Token of Gratitude. The speculation was focused on the demise of Eastbourne's eccentric old (81) Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell. The cause, according to a death certificate duly filed by her physician, was "cerebral thrombosis," i.e., a stroke. In three decades of practice at Eastbourne, the physician, kindly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: An Intruder at Eastbourne | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

A tired, sick, dispirited man emerged from 10 Downing Street, climbed into his official car, and sped through the chill January darkness to Buckingham Palace. Minutes later, the palace announced that Queen Elizabeth "was pleased to accept" the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden. Swinging out through the palace gates, Eden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Chosen Leader | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

The seduction scene takes up the better (and decidedly the worse) part of the picture. The seducer starts working on his victim in the middle of a junk heap back of the house. ("We could play hide and seek," he slyly suggests, and she replies. "Ah'm not athaletic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

By 10:30 the President was usually ready for the practice tee with Ed Dudley, thence to the 400-yd. first hole for a tour of the front nine (he walked half the way, rode half in his golf cart). After a locker-room lunch (a medium-size steak and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Clear Sky at Augusta | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

For a few seconds they rested there, while the winch unwound all its cable. But then they suddenly shot upwards about halfway to the first floor, as the spinning winch started to take in the cable again.

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Graduate Admits Wrecking Geology Museum's Elevator | 12/6/1956 | See Source »

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