Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Express. The Prime Minister's two-day visit to Paris last week was plainly designed to allay French fears before he set sail on the Queen Mary this week for his first official trip to the U.S. since the war. He wanted to assure his political next-door neighbor, French Premier Rene Pleven, that he would make no deals with the Americans which left France out in the cold. And he made it plain that Britain's refusal to join a Western Europe economic or military federation did not mean that it was opposed to either, or that...
...resident of Chappaqua, Miller started on the assignment by phoning Neighbor Wallace. It was then he learned that the editor customarily answers his own phone, a fact which was duly recorded in the story. Although he had never before met Wallace, Miller has been brushing against Digest people since his cub-reporter days on the Cleveland Press, when he met their researchers burrowing among the Cleveland Public Library's stacks. When Miller joined me in the Office of War Information in 1943, he first worked for Adrian Berwick, now an editor of the Digest overseas editions. Later Miller kept...
Hungarian-born Caterers Frederick and Maria Floris, who own a farm near Chartwell, Kent, followed their ten-year-old custom of baking a birthday cake for their well-known neighbor Winston Churchill. For the Prime Minister's 77th birthday, they delivered to 10 Downing Street a monumental 80-lb. confection in the shape of a flat-topped bowler hat, heavily iced with chocolate and decorated with 200 fancy sugary feathers commemorating some of the honors and triumphs in the long Churchillian career.† Biggest feather of all bore the name Clementine, for his wife, who has shared...
When Pastor Anderson went to the hospital, Garden City South roused itself in neighborliness. The neighbor who did most to get the others started was Mrs. Thomas Skelly, a Roman Catholic. She organized a committee to canvass the neighborhood. A "Pastor Anderson Fund" was established at St. Andrew's. West Hempstead and Garden City Catholics and Jews pitched in along with Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists and others. Though Mrs. Anderson soon got a teaching job nearby, St. Andrew's handed her five months of her husband's salary, and let her have the parsonage rent-free...
...plane. He had sent the film home to his mother in Chicago to be developed. When it was, she was amazed to see the image in the clouds. She sent the copy to her brother in Ashland, who made more copies. Mrs. Dobbins had got her picture from a neighbor, who got it from her daughter-in-law, who bought it for $1 from a woman who got it from an unnamed...