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...Stocky, blond Edwin Phillips, 44, who gave up prospecting and struck it richer in the vegetable-trucking business, caught the new fever. He drove his truck as far into the mountains as he could, then abandoned it and hiked into the uranium area. "It hit him like a brick," said his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: BRITISH COLUMBIA: Moose Pasture | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Last week on Pitcairn, the man who answered the ad-blond, 40-year-old Albert Wadkins Moverley-was pitching in with the work on the new schoolhouse. Teacher Moverley will have a few modern gadgets to help him with his 25 charges that John Adams would never have thought possible on Pitcairn. Among them: electricity, radios, and a 16-mm. movie projector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pitcairn's Progress | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Second Aliyah are still on top in the government, but in the army and among the people, the sabras (literally: cacti), the native-born, are coming to the fore. Palestinian climate has played a, strange trick on the sabras. They run to the big-boned, blue-eyed, blond athlete type associated with anti-Semitic persecutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Watchman | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Driving up to Stoke D'Abernon, the 23-year-old Oxford graduate nervously fingered his blond, bristly mustache. With a good war record behind him (he had lost an eye in a Jap air raid on Burma), he had come to Stoke in search of a peacetime career. A "houseparty" exam at the government's 300-year-old manor house is now the way to get a topflight civil service job in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Weekend Lookover | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...orchestra alternates Russian dances and American foxtrots with admirable impartiality, not even common convention can dispel the uneasiness, like a chill draught from an unseen window, that stirs through the perspiring crowd. Three young men try hard: a bright-eyed British captain, a young American diplomat and a blond, slightly bewildered-looking Russian lieutenant who apparently speaks some English. The American has his hands in his pockets as the other two systematically spoon up their mixed salad. Says the British captain: "I've only been here two months but I really do like it . . . We certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: INTERMEZZO | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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