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...rest, plain Mr. Attlee has a big job looming ahead of him. Gone is the party's evangelical zeal of 1945, when Socialists sang Blake's great hymn, and meant it: "I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem/In England's green and pleasant land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This Last Prize | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...best jobs, or reported they had loaded twelve cars to meet their work norm, when they loaded only ten. There was no regular hospital at the mine, but they had a twelve-bed lying-in hospital for the pregnant girls. The girls kept the children in the house till they were about five. After that, the children were put in the state school. It was a big thing to have a baby. They told us it was a work for peace. When the Imperialists killed a Hungarian in the next war, one of our children would be there to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Out of the Mines | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Elsewhere photographers snapped some candid shots of part-time sports figures in lesser events: in Biarritz on a recent vacation, two-year-old Arabella, daughter of Randolph and granddaughter of Winston Churchill, huffed & puffed till her tongue hung out playing solitaire with a beach ball. In Falkenstein, Germany, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy practiced place-kicks before a game of touch football between his office staff and a team of American newspaper correspondents. The practice paid off: McCloy 's eleven trounced the writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Happy Days | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...another development, the Cambridge Traffic Board postponed its meeting to discuss the city parking problem from yesterday till 10 a.m. tomorrow. The Board will consider a City Council resolution which calls for a survey of possible parking areas near the Common and playgrounds, especially around Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Tow Away 2 Cars In Anti-Parking Crusade | 10/25/1951 | See Source »

...grassy knoll in a valley in northern Iraq. They and their descendants lived there 500 years. It was perhaps the most critical period in human history. The founding of that village (which anthropologists call Jarmo) may mark the point in time when the first wandering huntsmen settled down to till the soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Earliest Farmers | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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