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...your magazine, May 27 issue, you made comment on my report to the people, which was inserted in the Congressional Record. The members gave their consent because such procedure not only is authorized by Congress, but it has been the usage and custom since some time before TIME Magazine was established...
...paper has had its share of famous reporters (Frank O'Malley, Will Irwin, Alexander Woollcott, Edwin C. Hill, etc.), and still has a stable of byliners, including Critic Ward Morehouse, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Paragrapher H. I. Phillips. By long custom, Sun editorial writers are anonymous and stay that way: Francis Pharcellus Church, who wrote the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial on short notice in 1897, had to wait until his obituary (1906) to get credit...
Following its annual custom Phillips Brooks House is conducting a spring drive for old clothes and books during the next two weeks to provide clothes for the needy in Holland and to add books to its textbook lending library. Donations are being collected by PBH representatives in the Houses...
Since time immemorial--or at least since the gate was built--the custom has been to lock it on the dot of six in the evening. At best this was but a feeble gesture toward protecting the Yard, comparable to stopping up one hole in a sieve. All the other gates blatantly proclaim welcome to the crafty artisans of the night. It was only natural that the present inhabitants of the Yard, carrying on the greater part of their social and scholastic activities in the Houses, should request that this custom be temporarily suspended...
...could took more like a play-Wright than Simonov, the prize, winning dramatist. Tall and filled-out, with slicked hair and a small moustache, he relaxed in his custom-looking gray flanuels and checked sport jacket. Both smoked at undernourished-looking cigars, spoke through interpreters (though Ehrenburg threw in some French for spice...