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Aandahl soon found there was another side to Langer which appeals to North Dakota voters. Always an errand boy for the folks back home, Langer sends a letter signed "Bill" to mark almost every North Dakota birth, death, marriage and golden-wedding anniversary...
...private airplanes and chauffeur-driven limousines. He is worth some $40 million and owner of homes in Manhattan, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Hobe Sound (Fla.), Sun Valley and Paris. But he is possessed with a patrician's best instinct for public service, decency and generosity. As adviser, errand boy and global troubleshooter for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, he has always been selfless, tireless-and available. When he was sworn in for his present job as director of the Mutual Security Administration, Presidential Secretary Matt Connelly quipped: "Averell, isn't this the eighth time...
...from the voters last week. In a struggle for control of the world's most powerful local-government body-London's huge County Council-Socialist candidates ousted 26 Tories and one Liberal, rolled up a huge Labor majority: 92 seats to 37. Cried Herbert Morrison, onetime cockney errand boy who became Socialist boss of London and then his country's Foreign Secretary: "Thank you, London...
...washing car windows, when the villain of the piece sidled up to them. "Want to earn some money?" he murmured. "Mail this package for me. I'm in a hurry." He handed them a heavy parcel and three marks. Three marks (70?) was big money for such an errand...
Love Instead of Latin. Sister Clothilde was 28 and had never been kissed, but she was beautiful and well-made. The boy Denis, going on 14, met her when he ran an errand to the local hospital. He felt glowingly attracted to the smiling sister and invented excuses to see her again. Soon the thought of the handsome Denis was invading Sister Clothilde's prayers. She tried to reassure herself: "I love him as a son. There is nothing else. I love him as a mother loves her son." But she had misunderstood her feelings as completely as Denis...