Word: persons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article "Breach of Marriage" [TIME, Aug. 9] incensed me. I doubt that any intelligent person will subscribe to the opinion of the Church of England in this matter...
Morally, if not legally, it was up to Alger Hiss to prove that there ever was such a person as George Crosley. This week the committee would have Chambers and Hiss confront each other in public. But the committee had a greater responsibility than merely permitting the public to compare two stories. By all the means at its command, it had to find out-and tell the people-which story was true...
...Departing for a European vacation, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan said: "Anyone who commits a crime while I'm away is an ill-mannered person...
Said one elegant oldtime spatient last week: "There used to be a time when one was sure to meet one's friends in Bath. But now one hardly knows anyone." Echoed a Bath specialist: "In a few years Bath will become so crowded and impossible that any person of quality will naturally go abroad for treatment." Was Beau Nash turning in his grave? Probably not; he used to pass his six-quart beaver among the swells to collect money for a mineral-water hospital available to all comers...
Bedside Manner. One day, when a stranger asked the Babe to autograph three baseballs, the Babe said: "Who for?" For a bedridden boy, explained the stranger. "Where is he?" asked the Babe. He insisted on riding the twelve miles to deliver them in person. The boy's mother led the big fellow into the sickroom, and broke into tears as her son sat up in bed. "He's been delirious," she said, "and he thinks he's dreaming...