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...comfort in the closely contested popular vote. For Artist Cox's painting, though conservative and wholly understandable, is done in a subtly stylized manner that is no trite affirmation of standard calendar charms. (At least it was not so realistic as the seascapes by the late Frederick J. Waugh, which the Carnegie public picked for five years running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The People's Choice | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...Commando show, at Bardia, Sir Walter fell in a ditch more than 62 inches deep. He verbally flayed a stalwart young officer who, mistaking him for Major Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies), tried to extricate him in the darkness. In Rommel's sudden thrust at Bir Hacheim in 1942, Sir Walter was captured. For 16 months he was a prisoner. Then Italy's collapse released him and gave him a chance to win his second D.S.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Utter Contempt | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

Major Randolph Churchill, only son of Britain's Prime Minister and a veteran of a previous British mission to Marshal Tito (see PRESS), flew from Italy to Yugoslavian Partisan headquarters with his good friend Major Evelyn Waugh, satirical English novelist (Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags) and Comman-doman. As the plane neared the field it went into a dive and crashed, killing the five-man crew and two Partisan passengers. Churchill, Waugh, British War Correspondent Philip Jordan and four Russian officers escaped with minor injuries, next day were evacuated by plane to a British hospital in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 31, 1944 | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Javelin throw--Won by Washburn (E); second, Lion (H); third, Waugh. Distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUNNERS TOP EXETER 71 TO 55 | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...designed for those who already know the continental alphabet. Each program will open with fifteen minutes of sending at a five-words-a-minute rate, while during the remainder of the time the speed will be gradually accelerated. The class is under the direction of Robert J. L. Waugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Network Code Class Returns to Airwaves | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

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