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...packed two suitcases, loaded the children into the family's black Chevrolet, and set off to weekend at the home of a friend near Montreux, some 50 miles away. She told her mother she would be back on Sunday. The friend? Mrs. Dunbar was not sure. A "Mr. Robin," she thought her daughter had said. Sunday passed, then Monday, with no sign of the MacLeans. Mrs. Dunbar notified the British Foreign Office. Two Scotland Yard detectives sped to the scene, but they found no trace of the MacLeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Little Lost Lambs | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

Bread & Butter. To perk up sagging sales of butfer, the American Dairy Association made a deal with International Milling Co. of Minneapolis to include 25? toward the purchase of a pound of butter in every 5-lb., 10-lb., or 25-lb. sack of International's Robin Hood flour (a 50? coupon is in every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Sep. 21, 1953 | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...based on real events, it must have happened about 1500 B.C., during the Mycenaean period, the dimly-known dawn of Greek history. So legendary are the Seven that to dig for the graves at Eleusis might seem as unrealistic as to dig in Yorkshire for the grave of Robin Hood. But last week Archaeologist George E. Mylonas of Washington University. St. Louis, announced that he had actually found the graves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...aging Maryland farmer who got out of a car, clumped across the terrazzo-floored lobby, and was checked in as "Patient 00-00-01." On the twelfth floor, the farmer found himself in an air-conditioned, semiprivate room (as are all the center's 250 rooms), done in robin's-egg blue, with figured draperies and blond modern furniture. His room had its own bath, outlets for radio and TV sets, and an intercom for talking to the nurses at their stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patient 00-00-01 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...Born. To Robin Roberts, 26, the Philadelphia Phillies' pitching ace, and Mary Kalnes Roberts, 25: their second child, second son; in Abington, Pa. Name: Don Stephen. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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