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...AMERICAN World Airways hopes to cash in on West Germany's fabulous economic revival by starting direct flights between Berlin and New York. Scheduled time is 17 hrs., 11 min., including stops at Hamburg, Prestwick Airport, Scotland, and occasionally Gander, Nfld. Fare...

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

Soss for the Gander. Up jumped Mrs. Soss to protest. No ballots should be cast, said she, until there had been full discussion of her proposals (for cumulative voting and a change in the annual-meeting date). After White explained that the polls would be open all afternoon and anyone whose mind was not made up could vote after the discussion, Mrs. Soss shouted: "You're railroading the vote . . . Maybe we'll have to have Mr. Young as chairman." Excitedly, she marched up to the platform, waggled a finger in the faces of Central executives and charged: "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: New Hand on the Throttle? | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...less conscious of tradition than the European and are apt to experiment more. He finds a surprising degree of Oriental influence in American art and a lot of new life among the West Coast painters. A standout illustration of all three points is Morris Graves's monochromatic Young Gander Ready for Flight. Seattle's Graves goes his own experimental way (TIME, March 15, 1948), but he is obviously more indebted to Oriental art than to the European. San Francisco's Ralph Du Casse, who also draws inspiration from the Far East, contributed one of the strongest pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Whither Away | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

Sauce for the Gander. In El Paso, burglars who broke into Michael's Café took time out from their work to remove a 7-lb. goose from the refrigerator, cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

After an acorn fell on Chicken-licken's head, she convinced Hen-len, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Drake-lake, Goose-loose, Gander-lander and Turkey-lurkey that the sky was falling. They all got so excited that Fox-lox ate them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Chicken-Licken & Radiolaria | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

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