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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David Lloyd George, Churchill spoke with such feeling that the House had the impression that he was applying the valediction to himself. "Pity and compassion lent [him] their powerful wings. He knew the terror with which old age threatened the toiler . . . He stood, when at his zenith, without a rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Over to Anthony | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Rush Hour. In San Francisco, Gunman Jack M. Love, 29, complained to police that before he was able to rob the Carmel Liquors Store of $64, he not only had to wait for the customers to leave, but also to outwait a rival who was hanging around for the same purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Williams C. Brady '57, president of the New Conservative Club, rival organization of the Conservative League, said last night. "If Seoger is a Communist the League play have good reason to complain. Otherwise, he continued, "I do not believe that they have a valid protest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conservative League May Ask Watson To Cancel Ballad Singer's Performance | 4/1/1955 | See Source »

Brennan will face rival Wintergreen Captain Fry at center and his wings on the first line will be Bunnies' Ed Hurley and Lowell's Jim Josin. Hurley and the Rinehart' reserve center Pete Hoagland of Dudley were among the League's top scorers during the regular season and could make the difference if Swenson can repeat his previous outstanding performances in the nets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wintergreens Favorites in Annual Clash With Rineharts Sextet Today | 3/30/1955 | See Source »

...worshiping a living god is that he may bolt. This is what his supremely exalted omnipotence, Tibet's Dalai Lama, did when he heard that the Red Chinese army was approaching his capital in 1950. Persuaded to return, he found that the Communists had brought with them a rival deity, the Panchen Lama. Last summer both Lamas journeyed to Peking to attend the First National People's Congress (TIME. Sept. 27). At a cocktail party a visiting British newsman met the Dalai Lama, wearing a saffron robe and a large collection of fountain pens, and asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIBET: Diarchy of Deities | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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