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...Manhattan, Old Soldier Douglas MacArthur and former staff officers celebrated his 72nd birthday with a stag party. He admitted to a reporter that his former Commander in Chief Harry Truman had failed to note the day with a greeting, added that one of his favorite fighting men was still Lucius Aemilius Paulus, the Roman consul sent to fight the Macedonians in 168 B.C., who turned on his critics and told them either to come to Macedonia and fight with him or stay home and be quiet. Said Mac Arthur: "If I chance to meet Lucius Aemilius Paulus in the hereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Discoveries & Disclosures | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Another pause, a click, and she came out of the phone booth still uncertain. The voice just didn't fit a short guy. And he sounded so sort of shy and nice . . . my God, the handsome stag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Say, I met you at a Jolly-up | 1/31/1952 | See Source »

...finally had to be paddled to shore. By week's end, things were going more smoothly, thanks, in one case, to Philip. When he attended a Toronto Board of Trade luncheon, the Mounties barred the door to six newshens with tickets. The luncheon, they were told, was stag. The newshens' clucking reached Philip. Said he: "Have them admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Touring Trouble | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Values F.O.B. Ferris tries to fill the loveless void with cocktails, out-of-town stag sprees, and finally an affair with a rich divorcee, Mary Raeburn. While the whole town is clucking, Ferris discovers that Mary, in her own way, is as much of an emotional bankrupt as Enid. One afternoon he finds her doubled in pain from the need for dope; she is a hopeless addict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forever Babbitt | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Women students, possibly suffering from the delusion that dates are required for attendance at the Friday evening dances in the Union, failed to appear in large enough numbers to satisfy last week's swollen stag line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girls Don't Need Dates for Union | 7/26/1951 | See Source »

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