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...such a way one Hingham widow was said to have furnished her home; a Duxbury mother found a piano that served for music lessons for her four children; a Lincoln housewife found a perfectly usable playpen for her baby. To the dumps, too, come service committees from the League of Women Voters and even local politicians in search of a ready-made audience. On one recent Sunday, a crowd of happy-go-dumping Hingham residents showed up with jugs of martinis and plates of hors d'oeuvres, proceeded to make a three-martini cocktail hour...
Conditions in the apartment gave substance to her words. Two children of preschool age were using the living room as a playpen, several times coming dangerously close to extinction from electrical wiring, paperweights, and other threatening objects. The kitchen, its plaster peeling, was too narrow to contain an ironing board and chair; and the bedroom, far from copious, held two beds and a cradle...
...there have been times when life in the playpen wasn't so pleasant. One of the latest of these spats between Massachusetts Hall and Wadsworth House--the old, yellow wood and brick building in the southwest corner of the Yard where the Bulletin's editorial offices are located--occurred in March of 1949, when Bentinck-Smith was editor of the magazine. At that time the University was still over-run with war veterans, and improved attention to the individual student, through such media as advising and tutorial, was sorely needed. In addition, a consistently losing football team and charges...
Cold Pistol Barrel. The Sachsenhausen prisoners, ranged in two rows in a playpen-like dock, made no attempt to deny their crimes. Some of them, doubtless under Russian influence, talked like the accused in 1937 purge trials. "I got into this net of criminality," said dark, intense August Hoehn, the camp second-in-command. (In one day, Hoehn had hanged, gassed and shot 510 prisoners in petulance over a superior's rebuke.) "I got so tangled in its strands, I couldn't go back. At the mere thought I could feel the cold barrel of a pistol...
...venom-charged atmosphere the prisoners themselves seemed the least concerned. Towering, monocled Colonel General Eberhard von Mackensen stared impassively at his judges. Wax-faced Lieut. General Kurt Maeltzer, wartime Roman governor, sat beside him, hunched and bewildered. Between sessions he went to earn cigarets by building a playpen for a British guard's baby...