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...London, Buckingham Palace was romantically aflutter over the marriage of Robina MacDonald, 37, personal maid to Princess Margaret, and Norman Gordon, 32, onetime footman to Queen Elizabeth, now a post-office telephonist. Queen Mother Elizabeth personally supervised the baking of the wedding cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...copybook," as he put it, Hall was transferred to the Commonwealth Relations Office. Later, he was posted to Ottawa as assistant to Novelist Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat in the Commonwealth press office. He kept up the prodding. Finally the British in Moscow gave Clara a job as a telephonist and let her and her son move into the embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COLD WAR: Marriage in Moscow | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...clock everything is quiet. Chinese troops in grey-blue uniforms are squiggling around in the foreground. Suddenly Major John J. Pakula, American air officer, says: "Okay, they're on their way in." A Chinese officer yells "Yenmutan" ("smoke shell") to his telephonist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: War in the Mountains | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

Shot on July 2, 1881, Garfield died 78 days later, because his doctors, headed by his boyhood friend, Dr. D. W. Bliss, could not locate the assassin's bullet in his abdomen. By using an electromagnet, Telephonist Alexander Graham Bell had figured out the general location of the bullet (see cut), but no operation was performed. A more accurate guess (through deduction) by Anatomist Feneuil Dunkin Weisse was also disregarded, but later proved by autopsy. A wag cracked: "When ignorance is Bliss, 'tis folly to be Weisse." Two Points. Even though X-ray has long been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Un-haystacking a Needle | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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