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There was a roar, said Fire Captain Heriberto Surrey later, "as if a ten-ton aerial bomb had burst." A great jet of flame plumed skyward, cremating two firemen directing hoses atop their telescopic ladders. Dozens of bodies were hurled through the air in all directions. Steel beams and chunks of concrete hurtled through the ranked rings of firemen, police and spectators. Three blocks away, a woman watching at an open window was beheaded by a piece of flying glass. Then oxygen tanks stored in the warehouse began exploding; gasoline and oil drums caught fire and burst, raining like napalm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Holiday Disaster | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Churchill ran a broad finger down Britain's army list and halted at the fifth name: General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., D.S.O. A message to Cobham, Surrey brought 54-year-old General Templer flying to the banquet room in Ottawa. Three weeks later he was in Malaya, with such military and political powers in his kit bag as no British soldier had had since Cromwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF MALAYA: Smiling Tiger | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...School program will be directed by Stanley S. Surrey professor of Law. Surrey has served as a member of the U. S. tax mission to Japan, and was recently special counsel to the congressional subcommittee investigating the internal revenue department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Will Study Tax Plans In U.N. Program | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

HERBERT L. SUSLAK Purley, Surrey, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 19, 1952 | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Tolworth, Surrey, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

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