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...name is Nip Brigham. My twin brother is Nap Brigham. We both get mail at Post Office Box 1, Dyersburg, Tenn. Nip and Nap both subscribe to TIME-Nip for years, Nap just started. You have now dropped Nip's subscription. You must have extended Nip's with Nap's. Nip's has a year and a half to run, Nap's one year. Please send two copies each week-one to Nip and one to Nap. Nap gets to the box before I do." A little investigation cleared up the mistake. It seems that...
Reported our subscription sleuth: "Nip was only too right. We had not trusted our own eyes. We simply added Nap's new subscription to Nip's old one on the supposition that they were one and the same Brigham. Adjustment has been made, and Nip has been advised." By now two copies of TIME are going to Box 1 in Dyersburg every week-one for Nip and one for Nap...
Bridgeplayer Snite, 44, did not show up for the tournament's second day. In the West Palm Beach hotel room where he had been taking a nap in the iron lung, he was found dead. The respirator was working, but after so many years of pumping against it, Fred Snite's heart had failed in his sleep. Thus ended perhaps the most famed fight an American has ever made to stay alive and to enjoy life against terrible odds...
Assembly on the Spot. All day and all night the grappling went on. Mendès took a nap on the cot in his office, then, tugging at his rumpled suit, returned to the floor to fight his way out of an old beartrap of French politics-the "war of resolutions." By attaching crippling resolutions to a government motion, the Assembly often evades a decision or makes futile a government proposition. Mendès found himself fighting more than a dozen of them. As a favor to the Europeans, he agreed to one that expressed a "desire to continue with...
...orders with their own ears, and then passing from the scene like ghosts. The toiling secretary, scribbling like mad in a desperate shorthand, never dared to interrupt the one-man show, which ended only when the Emperor abruptly shot from the room, took an hour's nap. and ultimately returned with "an overfilled goose-quill" to inscribe a blotty "N" at the base of each transcribed letter...