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...loose from the Government, now has Carnegie Foundation funds to keep it free from partisan seduction. Says Williams: "Anyone who comes to our cafe must drink out of the same urn. We are not touting for any government, department or political party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABCA Drops an A | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Maximilian & Molly. Grandmother took in boarders. One of the boarders had two prized possessions: an immoral Mexican hairless dog and an urn containing the ashes of his late wife. The urn was lost in a saloon, but young Gene finally inherited the Mexican hairless, which was named Maximilian. From another source he acquired a parrot named Molly, which was fond of mulberries and, much to the consternation of a neighbor's chickens, liked to hang upside down from the branches of a mulberry tree. Molly had been trained by a lady known locally as French Marguerite. Her habits "bewildered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Has the Young Buck Gone? | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

After the terrible battle at Falaise in August 1944, a Presbyterian padre in the Canadian Army had a deeply patriotic impulse. From a burned-out tank Major Robert Currie Creelman, M.B.E., took the bones and ashes of an unidentified Canadian, placed them in an urn, brought them home, planned a memorial shrine to all Canadian dead in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE SERVICES: The Long Voyage Home | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...after Creelman had sprinkled the soldier's ashes on the grounds of his church at Weston, Ont., the Army's principal Protestant chaplain, Colonel J. Logan-Vencta, and Brigadier Churchill Mann showed up, asked for the urn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE SERVICES: The Long Voyage Home | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...Basil Wright's extraordinarily beautiful Song of Ceylon, made for a British tea association. The film bears about the same relation to ordinary travelogues that Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn bears to a cheap pottery catalogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Eye for Fact | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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