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...After My Death." Hopkins' background was solidly High Anglican, and by the time he was an undergraduate at Oxford, he was so caught up in religious fervor and asceticism as to note in his diary: "For Lent. No pudding on Sunday...
Fortress. In return for Ruckman's wrist watch and fountain pen, a Russian major lent them a truck to carry the salvaged parts back to Torun airstrip. To get the salvaged engine into place, Ruckman traded his own, non-G.I. revolver for the use of a hoist. By mid-March, Star Dust was able to limp to Italy, then back to England, where Ruckman rejoined his outfit and flew ten more missions, eight of them in Star Dust...
...Harold's 24-hour day and seven-day week (the club has been closed on only three occasions: V-E and V-J days and the day of Franklin Roosevelt's funeral). There is almost no guesswork at Harold's. The statistical department, headed by Guy Lent, 55, formerly a chief statistician for Cities Service Co. in New York, knows the odds on every angle of the business. From a quick count of the license plates outside, the Smiths can tell how they should be doing (Californians are the biggest spenders, New Englanders the smallest). When...
...Club Henri IV, "I can hear my bells from Harvard Square." The four bells, bought at Filene's and tied to a cherry branch which overshadows Genevieve's terrace, tinkled restlessly in the wind. Like most of the decorations of Club Henry IV, Genevieve's own creating, the bells lent an air very simply, with little effort. Genevieve's restaurant occupies the two lower floors of an ancient frame building on Winthrop Street...
...Corporation in the Fogg Museum, Adenauer referred to the University as "the Oxford of America" and said, "American universities have played a leading part in putting Europe back on its feet after the terrible ordeal of the second World War. The helping hand you have lent us has been, and still is, of utmost value...