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...weather that is bad enough to strand suburbanites here in the New York City area no longer concerns us as much as it did when TIME was very young and its editorial staff was small. Then, a major crisis in transportation could disrupt the copy for an entire issue. OldTIMErs also like to recall the days when they worked in an old office building on East 40th Street. No other tenant worked there over the weekend, so in winter there was no heat. They made out, somehow, despite the fact that it was impossible to run a typewriter with mittens...
Last week Myers, who had shared office with Curran for nine years, announced that he would not run again in next month's N.M.U. elections. Owing to an oversight, said Blackie sleekly, his dues had been paid late and he feared that "this technicality could be used ... to disrupt and harm the union." But Curran, McKenzie and Smith were still on the ticket...
...industry took the position that the lines, which can easily transport almost 40% of the East Coast's entire prewar oil supply, might just as easily disrupt peacetime oil prices, if run by the Government or to benefit a few private interests...
...British seemed reluctant to take another step that might further disrupt relations with their essential, difficult ally. French General Fernand Oliva-Roget suddenly turned up in Paris, where he denied that his shelling of Damascus had been "indiscriminate." He said that the outbreaks had been deliberately provoked by Syrian police in the hope of British intervention. How much the British had encouraged the demonstrators he would not guess, but he added darkly that the identity of British agents in Syria was "perfectly well known...
...Germans all hope was gone of a blow from the Pomeranian pocket to disrupt the Russian rear. The pocket was collapsing under the hammer blows of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's armies. The twelve-way rail junction of Stolp went down. The Russians ringed Danzig, hatchery of World War II and birthplace of Arthur Schopenhauer, No. 1 German pessimist of the last century (when the pessimism field was admittedly less crowded...