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...charlotte ruse, the end of a definite policy for Poland can do more than rock the boat. And, whatever the world might have thought about Pilsudski's policies, at least they were definite. He built his house quite discreetly upon the foundation of amity with Germany, his next-door neighbor on both sides. Hard for members of democracies to realize is the truth that when dictatorships end, programs usually follow suit. It is to be hoped that in the looming grapple for the reins of the Polish government the winner will be a man whose polices will further the move...
Sirs: . . . Just before going over to my club for lunch today I stopped by the next-door room here in the dormitory to look over your magazine which had just come. What l saw under Transport made me not quite so eager for lunch. ... It could have been left out without any detraction from your story at all. It wasn't of nationwide interest, and it didn't have any special significance. ... I really didn't think TIME went in for that sort of thing. ... I am one of those who are pretty enthusiastic about flying...
...Bobby" Edwards, son of devout Congregationalist parents, was a clerk with ambitions to be a minister. He became intimate with his next-door neighbor, a telephone operator named Freda McKechnie, whose father worked in the same coal company as Edwards' father. Both families attended the Bethesda Church. Three years ago Bobby Edwards went off to school at East Aurora, N. Y., fell in love with a plain-looking teacher named Margaret Grain. Their unusual romance was revealed to the jury of anthracite miners in terms of 172 letters written by Edwards to Miss Grain after he returned to Edwardsville. Mostly...
...likable, easy-going Ogden Mills Reid whose office is on their own floor. A contributing factor is that Mrs. Reid is sternly Dry, which most Herald Tribune men, including her husband, are not. Even the rumor that white-crowned Jack Bleeck, who has run the Herald Tribune's next-door bar for years, considered opening his door to women, gave the whole staff a mild case of jitters. Bleeck's affords something of the oldtime barber-shop refuge from feminism, and there nearly every day the staff gathers-Stanley Walker, Grafton ("Wilkie") Wilcox, the able managing editor, wise...
...Peekskill, N. Y., for the first time in 20 years, John J. Morrissey left the house to which he retreated in 1914 to escape noise. His purpose: to complain to police against his next-door neighbor's radio...