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...anyone who asks for the secret of his business success, Claud H. Foster has a simple answer: "My best advice is you get in tune with the secret partner because He'll do something for you." The secret partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILANTHROPY: The Secret Partner | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Foster thinks something was done for him because "everything I touch makes money." When he was 14, he persuaded his father to let him plant four acres of potatoes in March before the frosts are normally over. Then, as Claud Foster says, "I prayed to my partner every night to keep those potatoes from coming up too soon. It was the first year in a long time there wasn't a killing frost after

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILANTHROPY: The Secret Partner | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...Died. Claud Bowes-Lyon, 89, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of England's Queen Elizabeth; in Forfarshire, Scotland. Worried by taxes, the spare, benign Earl once feared he would have to sell his Glamis Castle (pronounced Glarms), "the oldest inhabited house in Britain," long supposed the spot where Macbeth murdered Duncan and sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 20, 1944 | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

This characterization of the British Broadcasting Corp. appeared in Claud Cockburn's leftist London newsletter, The Week. British radio listeners might quarrel with it but few of them would deny that something ought to be done about civil-servantish BBC. Last week, as the time for renewal of BBC's Government charter neared, British voices spoke up and said so. BBC countered with what amounted to a top-drawer shakeup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: BBC & Its Public | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...crowded underground shelters of London have many drawbacks. One is that they stink. Another is that the air in them is laden with germs. Last week in the Lancet, Scientists Charles Claud Twort and A. H. Baker of the Portslade Laboratories in Sussex came out for an old-fashioned way of doing away with disagreeable smells which is a newfangled way of doing away with germs: burning incense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Odour of Sanctity | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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