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Word: withe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Post-Office Immortal. In his last years, Whistler was racked by debts, and fought a losing battle of telegraphic wits with Oscar Wilde. Whistler's best was the telegram he sent to the church where Wilde held his wedding: FEAR I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REACH YOU IN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scorpions & Butterflies | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

One of the best-kept secrets of World War II was spilled by British Historian Arthur Bryant in a book called The Turn of the Tide (TIME, May 20, 1957). Who really devised the strategy that defeated Germany? Bryant's answer: General Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Triumph in the West concludes Author Bryant's rationalization and happy acceptance of Alanbrooke's diaries as the handbook of Allied strategy. Bryant's pattern is the same: Alanbrooke coming up with the answers almost before the problems presented themselves; then low-military-IQ types such as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Forest Lawn is a cemetery in which nobody calls a spade a spade. Here the loss of life is known as "leavetaking," a corpse is "the loved one" or "the revered clay," the dead are merely "out of sight." Here 1,500,000 visitors a year wander, secure in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Lovers in the Sunset. The prophet came to earth on June 3, 1881, in Liberty, Mo., the son of an ordained minister and professor of natural sciences at a small Baptist college, who died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land when Hubert was 16. The boy managed to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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