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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon 50-year-old Alfred Brissenden, a night watchman, was taking a dish of tea with his wife in their cottage on Green Street, Royston, Hertfordshire. Beside them sat Ben, 6, their black-&-white, smooth-haired fox terrier. Just as Mrs. Brissenden passed Mr. Brissenden the biscuits, a voice said: "I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Talking Dog | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, whose ample baseball earnings (top: $70,000 in 1928), judiciously invested in Coca-Cola stock, have made him rich, gave $250,000 to build and endow a hospital in Royston, Ga., his birthplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Elevations | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...which the airborne finally had to fall back. Here their hell was not quite a mile long, little more than half a mile wide-a packed patch of screeching shells, of fire-spouting tanks that broiled men alive, of strafing planes, of sleepless nights, foodless days. Bespectacled Major Royston Oliver, 30-year-old Airborne press officer (now in an English hospital to save his wounded hand) told about it in a diffident, British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Operation Berlin | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

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