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...that all regular cooking utensils must be put away during Passover week, the Israeli army formally sold all its pots & pans to a Gentile, with the tacit agreement that it would buy them back at. week's end. In Jerusalem's New City, the authorities erected a triumphal arch. From atop Mount Zion, Jewish pilgrims peered down into the Arab-held Old City; the Arabs had so far refused them permission to come in for prayers at the wailing wall. The Israelis hoped they would soon fix that. They had changed the traditional Passover prayer to: "Next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: If I Forget Thee ... | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...yelped on an entrance, the tireless little tyrant roared in his hoarse, drama-ridden voice: "No! NO!" then stood speechless, slapping his leg with his baton, trying to suppress what he calls his "bad character." Once, dripping-wet in his black alpaca rehearsal coat, the maestro stopped the brassy triumphal march: "No! Not for the dead. For the living, for the living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With Love | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...triumphal march I walked right up to the center of the stage. The Christian Science Monitor said this scene was the best part of the opera, and added, "The always amazing business of deploying the throng without confusion was managed with the usual skill...

Author: By Janssen J. Siegfried, | Title: Reporter Puts On Egyptian Guise, Wags Spear at Aida | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

...showing off his newest ship of the air. The ship was a great, fat-bellied Boeing Stratocruiser, the first delivered to any airline. When it flew into Boston last week, it created the biggest stir since Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis landed there in 1927 on its triumphal tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...such monstrosities as the anti fox-hunting bill, recently introduced and narrowly defeated in England. The stout modern attitude seems to be: since I can't tell a martingale from a halter, I don't see why anyone else should be able to or want to. In our triumphal march towards socialism there are alternatives: lovel everyone down to the common man and play polo. Would anyone care to exchange some old spurs for a pair of sneakers? Black Beauty

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

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