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...wins of John Whitbeck, playing in the fifth position, and Bruce Weigand in the seventh gave Barnaby particular pleasure. Whitbeck, who suffered the only loss in last week's 8-1 triumph over Cornell, played a strong, steady game to defeat Toronto's Frank Swinton, 15-12, 15-12, 15-10. His hard backcourt drives were too much for Swinton to handle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Prevail, Battle Cadets Today | 12/9/1967 | See Source »

Stool Bus. In Swinton, England, Motorist Ernest Baker smacked into a bus, blanched when twelve uniformed policemen came piling out to book him for careless driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 1, 1958 | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

Seoul, it seemed, was not to be yielded easily. Two South Korean patrols that crossed the river to reconnoiter were driven back by salvos of mortar and artillery fire. Associated Press Correspondent Stan Swinton, who flew over Seoul in a spotter plane, reported the capital a "hornet's nest" of entrenchments, gun positions and Red defenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Up to the Han | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...Grab. Dannie Heineman, whose friends and associates include such bigwigs as Herbert Hoover, Spain's Duke of Alba and Britain's Viscount Swinton, prevailed upon Belgium and Canada to protest March's actions. Franco, who had praised March for his "audacious nationalism," brushed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Second Battle of the Ebro | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Shinwell took a merciless thumping in most newspapers (which were back to wartime four-page skimpiness).* Shinwell became a byword and a hissing. A music-hall comedian punned: "Be sure your Shinwell find you out." The House of Lords cheered as Viscount Swinton belabored him with "We suffer not from an act of God, but the inactivity of Emanuel." Shinwell got a bomb threat, and Scotland Yard put four constables around his small house in Tooting. Tooted Mrs. Shinwell: "Let them try to harm him!" Would her husband resign (as the Tory press had demanded and some Laborites had privately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Panorama by Candlelight | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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