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Both resolutions served notice that even in defeat, the Bevanite tail of Britain's labor movement packs a mean and powerful lash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Defeat for the Bevanly Host | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...again & again, Bishop Ford did his best to walk calmly through the streets till the guards returned. In another town his neck was bound with a wet rope which almost choked him as it dried and shrank. Another rope was made to trail from under his gown like a tail. To humiliate them both, the Reds once forced him to undress before Sister Joan Marie. She caught a glimpse of Bishop Ford for the last time in February of this year, the month the Reds now say he died. His once dark hair was completely white, his body so emaciated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On the King's Highway | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...showed wide and a light lavender. His sword was as long as a baseball bat and tapered like a rapier and he rose his full length from the water and then re-entered it. smoothly, like a diver and the old man saw the great scythe-blade of his tail go under and the line commenced to race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clean & Straight | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...plane (owned by a British firm, Airwork, Ltd.) had its seats arranged in a novel way: backs to the engines, so that passengers faced the tail. Many air experts have long held that this would be safer in case of accidents. As the Hermes cracked open, most of the passengers were hurled from their seats through the huge gash in the plane's body, into the sea. Seven people were almost certainly killed. But 50 got off with nothing worse than a chilly dunking, were quickly rescued by Sicilian fishermen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Miracle: Sitting Backwards | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

Slightly Used. In Pittsburgh, Barbara W. Ford notified police that her car had been stolen, received it eight days later minus engine, five wheels, five tires, three brake drums, one battery, two tail lights, and two floor mats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 25, 1952 | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

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