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Thus ended a saga-replete with danger, death, bravery and suffering-that had begun four weeks earlier; it had echoed in shrill and mysterious announcements over the Communist radio and in its press...
Died. Jan Struther, 52, British author (.4 Pocketful of Pebbles) best known in the U.S. for Mrs. Miniver (1939), the saga of British suburbia on the verge of World War II; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Saga of a Scholar. It had taken the dean himself quite a while to digest the news, but last week the whole saga came out. "Peters," it seemed, was really Robert Parkins, an Anglican priest who had been arrested in Britain for bigamy. He had never been to Oxford or taken an M.A. at Adelaide; nor had he earned a music degree from Durham...
...liked your monograph on Maud Gonne [TIME, May 11]. It was almost as living as herself. About a year ago, I sat . . . listening while she poured out the saga of her life. I had come to Ireland to do research on a book about William Butler Yeats, and she had consented to see me; but nothing so rich and gracious had been anticipated. Wrapped in a black silk brocade robe with great silver buttons, she sat by a coal fire under an oval picture of her mother, and guarded by a Maltese cat. My heart hurt. Could this wreck, this...
...saga of the waste coats was brought to light last week by the House Government Operations subcommittee. Its aims: 1) to show what happens when money is spent for spending's sake, and 2) to find out who was responsible...