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...course, forgets the day in 1930 when The MacNab won the Royal Hunt Cup. There was The MacNab, pounding toward the finish in a howling thunderstorm, when a flash of lightning struck and killed a prominent bookmaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Jolly Good Show | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...cloud study program of the services and G.E.) has been very successful, said Dr. Langmuir. Thirty-five of its cloud-seeding flights changed super cooled clouds* into ice or snow crystals. Last October, at Albuquerque, two large cumulus clouds were sprinkled with dry ice. They turned into a furious thunderstorm that drenched Albuquerque with heavy rain at a time of year when rain is uncommon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wringing Out the Clouds | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...cliche out of Hollywood, and it's in technicolor. Everything breathtaking that has ever been done before pops up in it sooner or later. But "The Three Musketeers" goes to such ludicrous extremes that it is hilarious. Every time something violent is about to come off, a short effective thunderstorm bursts upon the scene. The heroes are always smiling, and the villains always scowl. Nary a musketeer is scratched, while red-coated fiends are run through by the score. This all sounds tiresome, but the players operate with such incredible gusto that the whole affair becomes a delightful burlesque...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Three Musketeers | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

...severe daylight thunderstorm over western Wisconsin caught a two-engine Northwest Airlines transport plane, shot lightning around it, crippled it, brought it down against a bluff of the Mississippi River near Winona, Minn. The dead: 37 (there were no survivors). Total fatalities in airline and chartered passenger planes in 1948 to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...quit in 1942 after a quarrel with the Astors, hawk-nosed Editor J. L. Garvin had thrust his greatness upon the Observer and thumped British breakfast tables with his stubborn leaders, often three or four columns long. "The English Sunday," said a rival, "would be incomplete without his weekly thunderstorm." When Garvin parted with the Astors, Fleet Streeters bet that the Observer would collapse. But today, a team rather than a one-man show, the Observer is a sounder paper, if a less disturbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Hand at an Old Tiller | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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