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...Like a Cow?" For Indian university students, Expressionist Lerner is a new breed of cat. He is at home in one sense: "This is without question the wordiest, talkingest civilization I have ever encountered." But the talk of smugly anti-materialist intellectuals is no match for blitz-tongued Professor Lerner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Visiting Professor | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

Dean Munro, standing behind the Columbia nets, was fascinated by the verbal battle, and added to what must surely be the talkingest game on record by giving Witt a short account of his own days as a goalie...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Varsity Captures Ivy Title, Wins Nine Sparsely Attended Games; Bagnoli, Sweeney, Hedreen Stand Out | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

Changing Ears. Without the telephone, the nation's business and pleasure would come to a virtual standstill. In Washington, the world's talkingest city (70 telephones per 100 persons v. New York City's 53.8), President Eisenhower can have instant contact with any Cabinet member via a black and gold phone on his desk. In the Pentagon the world's largest switchboard handles 270,000 calls a day from more than 50,000 telephones. Two telephones (a red one connecting with U.S. bases, a black one with overseas bases) at Strategic Air Command headquarters would flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...talkingest of them all was Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who, having given a full explanation of how Royal Oak came its cropper (see p. 20), held a pep session on BBC. It contained easily the week's liveliest name-calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Words for War | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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