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When they bought the old farm, their friend Carl Van Doren gave them curt advice: "Pave it." Instead they let their next-door neighbor work it; now the place pays. Around home Gould is a relaxed, ruminative, cigarette-puffing host, lets his handsome, smartly dressed wife do much of the talking. The Goulds entertain simply, serve "a" cocktail, and, like a good Journal family, live well within their combined salaries of around $75,000 a year...
...fiction editor of the New Yorker, he can make a room, a house, a whole town come to life without raising his voice. Nothing happens in Time Will Darken It that small-town readers won't immediately recognize as next-door truth, but what does happen (gossip, housework, dinner parties, childbearing) is conveyed sensitively, in clean and restrained prose. Time Will Darken It is often too loosely constructed, frequently lingers with characters who don't help the story along, but it weighs with considerable accuracy and tenderness the half-articulated impulses of disenchanted people who believe, with Author...
Franklin D. Roosevelt's idea of the 23 most influential people in the U.S. was reported by René de Chambrun, who published in This Week a list the President had jotted down for him in 1940. Next-door neighbors on the list: Robert Taft and Henry Wallace. Among the missing: Harry Truman. Final name on the list: Mrs. F.D.R...
...which will be needed in place of the Employees' Clinic when patients start to flock in. When this extra need became apparent recently, the University had already donated the office space (mainly for statisticians, etc.) at 79 Mount Auburn and had remodelled it. Harvard also came through with the next-door property-77 Mount Auburn-for the clinic...
...past Nepal (54,000 sq. mi.) maintained regular relations only with Britain and with occasional visiting Chinese missions. But Britain's departure from India, Nepal's next-door neighbor, has already begun to create a political vacuum into which the U.S. is stepping...