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Brazen Doors. Most Harley houses are owned by the estate of Lord Howard de Walden, whose agents are careful to lease them only to physicians of high repute. Other landlords have been less scrupulous. A dozen buildings have been carved into warrens of one-room offices." and these are shared by so many doctors that they have become little more than mail drops for fee-hungry physicians who know the value of a Harley Street address. A single doorway may be almost solidly covered with as many as 40 brass name plates. Some names stand for reputable young consultants...
...theme is the innocence of love and the frailty of innocence, exemplified by various scenes of life on the Rivera, in a one-room cold-water flat, behind the bushes of a country estate, and upstairs with the pimpled maid...
...one-room schoolhouse never produced the switchblade-carrying terrorist and rapist that our sprawling, highly organized schools turn out today. The one-room schoolhouse is passing and with it other old-fashioned characteristics of America...
Last week Athanassios. 70, and Soultana, 60, were living together in a one-room apartment in the northern Greek town of Edessa. "I am not unfaithful to my husband." said Soultana. "I had warned him that if Athanassios ever came back, I would go with him immediately." At first Soultana's husband sent police after the couple, but now reportedly has agreed to a divorce. "We will be married." insisted Athanassios confidently, just as he had vowed 45 years...
...even religion should be allowed to cut off children from the opportunity to become businessmen, doctors, lawyers or musicians, if they want to, instead of farmers. Prospect for the next school year: more trouble for Ohio's Amish, when a new state law will make illegal all one-room schools, including the one-room parochial schools where many Amish children get their instruction in reading, writing and ciphering...