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...Dewey family playing with their Great Dane; the Dewey family at the circus; Dewey on the farm. Dewey infantrymen passed out soft drinks and small favors to gawking visitors and gave every 200th visitor a door prize. William Horne, a Philadelphia bank employee, was clocked in as the 45,000th visitor and got a sterling silver carving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: How He Did It | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...bustling Hertfordshire town of St. Albans last week, 1,000 sober Englishmen, dressed up as Roman legionaries, Saxon peasants, Norman kings, monks and long-haired cavaliers, re-enacted the glory of their town. The occasion: the 1,000th anniversary of St. Albans School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The First 1,000 Years | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...many a moviegoer, Elsa Lanchester is just Charles Laughton's wife; but to Hollywoodians she is the burlesqueen of what is probably the world's toniest vaudeville palace: Los Angeles' Turnabout Theater. Last week Elsa gave her 2,000th performance at Turnabout, a full house gave her a rousing curtain call, and the management gave her a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Elsa's Gazebo | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Meadows near San Francisco, wrinkle-faced Jockey Johnny Longden (TIME, Dec. 8) rode his 3,000th winner on a horse named Bub. Only one other jockey, Britain's Gordon Richards (who booted home his 3,508th winner last week), has won more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Ways | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...work on his first steel model, playfully called it "Electrolysis." But he did not start mass production until 194,5. Last year, his assembly-line yard at West Haven, Conn, turned out one steel cruiser every 90 minutes, and he grossed $4,250,000. (When Steelcraft's 1,000th boat came off the line, Churchward had it lifted 106 feet by a crane, then dropped to demonstrate its indestructibility.) So far, he has turned out 1,860 cruisers. This year he is stepping up production one-third, and hopes to turn out more small cruisers than all the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Poor Man's Yacht | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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