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Alexander succeeds Auchinleck in the over-all command of the Middle East. Under him, in direct command of the Eighth Army in Egypt, he has Lieut. General Bernard Law Montgomery, a 54-year-old Ulsterman who is also a veteran of the retreat from France. But, like Wavell and Auchinleck (who at the last held both the area and army commands), Alexander is responsible for victory or defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EGYPT: After the Auk | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

About a year and a half ago Ulsterman Louis MacNeice, who has written an Irish lion's share of grade-A contemporary English verse, came to the U.S. to earn a quiet living and see what he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Jun. 9, 1941 | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Boyd's Daughter (by St. John Ervine, produced by Copley Productions). Last week the angry Ulsterman who once spent a choleric period as drama critic of the late New York World gave Manhattan a little play which is practically a complete definition of the word wholesome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Enlivened by politely exciting incidents like these, the British Amateur Golf Championship proceeded amiably last week at Sandwich, England. U. S. sports pages, which used to regard the British Amateur as their private property, ceased to ROBERT SWEENY He sank an Ulsterman. do so when Bobby Jones and Lawson Little ceased playing in it. Last week they had a hard time reviving their excitement even when it became apparent that an American was going to win. The American was Robert Sweeny, 25. a long-legged, wavy-haired Oxonian, who learned his golf in England where he has lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Match Play | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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