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...with Clement Attlee over the Labor Party's support for a Southeast Asia alliance and German rearmament, Bevan had kept to himself. Night after night he sat brooding in the "Bevanite" corner of the Commons' Smoke Room with one or two henchmen. Only rarely did the old wit flash out, the great laugh boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Rejected Man | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...wit: MERKRIES and LINKS-two cars advertised on his program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Citation: "What the Lunts have joined together Dartmouth will not set asunder. thirty years ago ..........a new dimension was added to the theater of our time;.....You have paced each other with intelliogence, wit, integrity, hard work and unparalleled grace until it can be said of your performing art that words are never put to better use or needed less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Born. To Victor Borge, 45, Danish-born pianist-wit whose Comedy in Music has broken all Broadway records for one-man shows (ninth month, heading toward 300 performances), and Sarahbel Roach Borge, 34, his second wife: a son. Name: Victor Bernhard. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...Commented the reviewer:" "It would seem that the lean years have arrived in purlieus of Mount Auburn and Plympton Streets, for seldom have we previously been favored with such a monumental display of gratuitous imbecility, such wholesome vulgarity of the common or garden variety, or such lamentable paucity of wit and artistry as is represented by this issue...

Author: By Steven C. Swell, | Title: Raccoon Coats, Sousa's Band Help Kick Off Class of '29 Freshman Year | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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