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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was a warm little family ceremony that could have happened only in Britain's House of Commons. "In these days," said Prime Minister Clement Attlee, from the government front bench, "75 is not a venerable age. People seem to be able to continue for several decades after that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We All Rejoice | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Meanwhile, hale & hearty Winston Churchill seemed prepared to go on clear into the 21st Century, if necessary. Said Winnie, who is fond of reminding rivals that Gladstone was Prime Minister at 82: "I never leave a pub before closing time."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We All Rejoice | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The most telling index of Red defeat was the fact that even the staffs of the Communist Unita and the left-wing Socialist Avanti went to work to put out their papers, after it became apparent that other papers in Italy would publish on schedule. The Reds had boasted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Flop | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Private Noel Moncaster, of the Royal Pioneer Corps stationed at Luneburg, had already had a drink or two too many when he spotted a seductive fraulein on a street corner. She invited him to a party and Noel accepted. That was in May 1947. Last week, lighter by 35 Ibs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Lorelei & the Private | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Last October, at his own pleading, Moncaster was released from prison, on condition that he assume a German name and go to work on a slave-labor project at Leuna, along with a group of German P.W.s. The Russians provided him with phony "German" identity papers, but never bothered to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Lorelei & the Private | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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