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On Gray's Inn Road in London, just north of Fleet Street, the modern office buildings that once housed the Times and the Sunday Times are nearly abandoned, their lobbies dark and locked. One mile away, in a seedy dock area called Wapping, deep in the shadow of the Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Revolution on Fleet Street | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

The target of their wrath is Keith Rupert Murdoch, 54, the proprietor of Wapping and one of the world's most powerful press barons. Murdoch has acted audaciously in the past, but never before has he accomplished so much in a single bold stroke. For 50 years Fleet Street's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Revolution on Fleet Street | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

BLUE: A-say! A say, powerdong and efficacious Leader! Oh, as the common lilac brents in hanged aslaver, enfundus of the wapping sun, so do I gronch and toad beneath the glasp of your so blastred wanked eye, a loosome maggot nannyberry, poosant Dux, my muskled Congressman! I base, I...

Author: By Deborah J. Franklin, | Title: Hangover Time | 7/26/1983 | See Source »

London is what Norman Collins' book is really about. Percy and his blonde are simply two of the dozen-odd principal characters used by Author Collins as a means of mapping London-south from Camden Town, north from Wapping. Absent from his map is the London that is most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cries of New London | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

(See Cover) In Simla last week, 21 Indians and one Englishman struggled to solve one of the world's most vexatious problems - giving self-government to India. The Englishman bore the resounding proconsular title of His Excellency, Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wavell (rhymes with naval) of Cyrenaica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Soldier of Peace | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

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