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Social Note. In Greenwich, Conn., three masked bandits entered the home of George H. Houston, ex-president of Baldwin Locomotive Works, announced a stickup, stayed an hour, toured the house, chatted pleasantly, finally bade Mrs. Houston and her baby grandchild good- bye, shook hands all around (first removing their gloves) and departed with several cases of whiskey, $75 and nine gas coupons...
Beyond the fence were other barriers. When the foreigners spoke brokenly or had trouble with restaurant menus, some Oswegonians snickered. Once, when a Yugoslav couple bade a visitor goodbye at the bus station and the men kissed each other on the cheek, townfolk watched with open amusement. Staid Oswego (pop. 22,062) was unprepared for such a massive transfusion; it could not help gaping, winking, misunderstanding, resenting...
...badly); in its disciplined gardens he had schemed to confuse and divide his enemies. Since then, Potsdam had symbolized much that was Germany. When old Paul von Hindenburg stood in Potsdam's Garrison Church on March 21, 1933, and handed his country over to the Nazis, he bade them rule in the spirit of Potsdam. Now the Garrison Church was ein Trümmerhaufen - a rubble heap...
...problem. . . . He will not fit a generalization. He may be coming from the swampy, malaria-infected South Pacific ... an action field in Normandy or the Rhineland . . . from a prison camp. . . . Forty lads coming back from 40 fronts may have had 40 very different experiences. The little homeside church, that bade him Godspeed and a safe return so many months ago, will have to deal with them as individuals...
...week I have been waiting impatiently for this week's issue of TIME, [April 23], knowing that in its usual clear fashion it would frame into words the thoughts and tears and hopes and fears of all the 137 million Americans who this week bade farewell to our beloved President...