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...Iranian and the British governments both, the last garrison of 322 British technicians left on the British cruiser Mauritius, after a night at the local Gymkhana Club and the Guest House Bar, when they made a manful effort to polish off a three-month supply of whisky in one glorious but decorous gulp. Even Vera ("Hard-Hearted Hannah") Flavell, the penny-pinching proprietress of the Guest House, had proclaimed drinks on the house. By the time the evacuees arrived at the Gymkhana Club once again for customs inspection at 8 a.m., they were too hungover to care any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Darkness in Abadan | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

Three times Rabbi Finkelstein and the congregation repeated: Blessed be His name, whose glorious Kingdom is for ever and ever. Seven times the shout arose: The Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Trumpet for All Israel | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

GREAT BRITAIN "A Worrying Time" Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God Save the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Worrying Time | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

French literature is a very glorious and splendid treasury, but really it is about 60 million Frenchmen, isn't it? The masters of modern literature are engaged in describing multitudinous man, and at once we see a violent shift of values taking place. In one sense the individual shrinks in this vast cousinage and in another sense his assertion of his validity takes on a new urgency and seeks a new authority...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

Only two Harvard football games will be televised this season, but one will be in glorious color. The Columbia Broadcasting System will make an exclusive color telecast of the Yale game from the Bowl November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Game Marks Crimson's Full Color Television Debut | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

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