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Last week, Tory M.P. William Shepherd rose in Commons. Asked he: "Is it not a waste of three policemen's time? Lenin lived in the house only about a fortnight and he left without paying his rent.* Cannot the Home Secretary get this bust put in an institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Noblesse Oblige | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...late winter he goes up into the hills to live with Massot, the shepherd. "Madame Massot received me with clasped hands. . . . She was an agreeable country lady, very ugly; with so much goodness in her blind eye, so much goodness in her moustache, in her snuff-taking nose, in her sagging cheeks, in her black-lipped mouth, that she was frightfully ugly. It was an ugliness made of all that sacrifice, of all that martyrdom which constitutes real goodness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Thoreau | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

Zero Hour. A single B-29 will carry the Model-T bomb at Crossroads. More B-29s will fly above it, to drop instruments in parachutes. The "mother planes" will hover at a fairly safe distance, ready to shepherd their crewless "drones" into the radioactive cloud. At Zero minus 15 seconds, another ring of B-29s, each carrying at least 25 cameras, will turn and head for the target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Model T at Crossroads | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...story of David, the spoiled shepherd poet who climbed into royal favor, betrayed King Saul and his people, took over the throne, ruled Israel in her march from primitivism to the brink of decadence, and declined among the dissensions, rapes, assassinations, and revolutionary plots of his children, then sought and found his God at last-is one of mankind's archetypical legends. Miss Schmitt has chosen to tell it not as a historical or Biblical but a psychological novel. In this task she suffers from a serious handicap: as a novelist, she is not very adventurous; as a psychologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psalmist Psychologized | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...squash team edged out Middlesex School Wednesday afternoon winning three out of five matches on the Linden Street courts. Dave Shepherd, Jim McKittrick, and Bob Dodson supplied wins, while Milt Heath and Charlie Mulcahey came out on the short end of their scores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Wins | 3/1/1946 | See Source »

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