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Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery was once asked to name the three greatest generals in history. Half smiling, he replied, "The other two were Alexander the Great and Napoleon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Monty: The Legend of El Alamein | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...Flame. Margaret and her husband, newly created the Earl of Snowdon, set up housekeeping in a large Kensington Palace apartment and soon became fixtures on the club and party circuit of swinging London. They had two children: David, Viscount Linley, now 14, and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, now eleven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Royal Bust-Up In London | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

When David Viscount Linley, 12, and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 10, accompanied their mother Princess Margaret on a visit to the Royal Navy at Portland Naval Base, Britain's Senior Service put on a good show. There was a helicopter flypast, and a fire drill with asbestos-clad sailors putting out a fire. David got an extra treat. He took the wheel of one of the navy's high-powered training boats, then joined the Royal Marines in an assault on a nearby beach. Later he clapped a sailor hat on his head and was heard to pronounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 12, 1974 | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...Died. Viscount Brookeborough, 85, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1943 to 1963 and a staunch adversary of the Irish Republican Army; in Colebrook, Northern Ireland. Sir Basil Brooke until his elevation to the peerage in 1952, his refusal to bring the Roman Catholic minority into Northern Ireland's public affairs left his country with a legacy of strife that overshadows his positive achievements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 3, 1973 | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...Land-Rover had meanwhile made it onto the tarmac and was circling the Viscount, but only one of the three Arabs had a gun. He fired repeatedly at the plane without causing any appreciable damage. Another Arab threw a bag of explosives near the aircraft but it did not go off. By this time, an Israeli security agent was strafing the car with a submachine gun. He wounded all three guerrillas, one fatally, and the Land-Rover crashed into a mobile generator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Mission That Failed | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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