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...pursue a longtime hobby. For years he has puttered happily in his basement, accumulating good tools (he values his layout at $4,000) and turning out inlaid wastebaskets and other knickknacks for his friends and family. Over the years he has established a pleasant puttering partnership with his next-door neighbor and longtime friend, Ralph Davis, a lighting company inspector. Davis plays an Art Carney support to Hall's Jackie Gleason, and their weekend rituals usually follow the same pattern. On Saturday mornings, until recently, Hall would get up around 5 a.m. and look over at Davis' house...
When Marx sent Beedle Smith some caviar, Smith, who had no taste for caviar, passed it on to his next-door neighbor at Fort Myer, Brigadier General Eisenhower. Later, Ike dropped in to thank Marx. The toymakers other military friends include NATO's General Alfred Gruenther, Strategic Air Command's General Curtis LeMay, General Omar Bradley, now a Bulova top executive, and General George Catlett Marshall. Even after they leaped into the headlines in wartime, Marx says, he was sure that the generals would be "forgotten like Bliss and Pershing," worried about the generals' financial future. In 1946, when...
...made reality while men are men, and nations nations? The world is not yet ready, and may never be, for a world government. It does need multilateral diplomacy. The mere existence of the U.N. sometimes makes a settlement possible because nations that will not yield an inch before their next-door neighbor will beat a retreat more gracefully in response to an appeal from the U.N. It gives the Communists a soapbox, but it also provides small nations with a useful forum for world debate; at its best, it gives everyone a court of appeal before the bar of world...
...best way to remove the distance and make Claverly residents an integral part of a House is to annex Claverly to Adams. Not only are the two next-door neighbors, but part of Adams is architecturally so similar to Claverly that they could be easily joined. Such an annexation, of course, would make Adams the largest House in the College, with close to 500 members. But it would be only slightly larger than Lowell is at present. Although Masters rightly dislike the trend toward larger Houses, they must realize that the University's growth will never allow a return...
...take long for Harvard's first scandal to break. The Goffe's at least were not surprised when Eaton was hauled into court for thrashing one of his assistants with a "cudgel. . . big enough to have killed a horse." There may have been raised eyebrows across the street; but next-door neighbors usually know about that sort of thing...