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...Most famed Bairnsfather cartoon: Old Bill, peering from a shell-hole crater in No Man's Land, tells his grumbling companion: "Well, if yer knows a better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cartoonist Soldier | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...Reverend Harry Clapham, Vicar of blitzed St. Thomas' in cockney Lambeth, could "make a luvely sermon-make yer cry if 'e wanted to." He could write lovely letters, too: he liked writing them so well that he sent out 7,750,000 in 17 years. For the venerable, frosty-powed Vicar had made a juicy discovery: the world was wondrously full of charitable persons whose hearts and pocketbooks bled at letters of appeal, and who made no importunate inquiries as to what became of the money. So the methodical Vicar compiled his own card-indexed list containing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pity the Vicar | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...legend "speaks only to God"), is vice chair man of the Committee of Physicians, a group of 1,000 critical American Medical Association members. For three years Dr. Cabot has stamped and stormed for group medical service. Last year a group of prominent Boston laymen, headed by Law yer Francis Henry Russell, dumped a plan for cheap, wholesale medical care on Dr. Cabot's doorstep. Dr. Cabot read and ap proved the plan, discussed it with four sympathetic colleagues-among them Dr. Channing Frothingham, former president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Dr. Robert L. De Normandie, head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Service, Inc. | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Scrymgeour is pronoonced Skrimjer as it was when th' Heilanders defeated th' Sassan-ach at Bannockburn. aye an' at Prestonpans ferbye (an' if ye dare mention Flodden Field or Culloden, I'll slit yer throats wi' ma rusty Claymore an' feed yer misbegotten flesh tae th' Eagles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Scrymgeour what they've done tae th' Cholmondeleys, th' Leveson Cowers, th' Majoribanks an' th' St. Johns, pronoonced Chumley, Leeson-Gore, Marshbanks an' Sinjin. Scrymgeour was just that afore th' Saxons landed. A rouse tae ye, TIME, but watch yer step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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