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TIME must continue to defer to the longstanding wish of Benjamin F. Boswell that he, his sanctum and his bookish hobbies shall not be made the subject of publicity...
...Duchess of Wrexe" was dead, but London's aristocracy remained, despite postwar cocktail sets and dole-fed Lower Classes. There were still the flower women at the fountain in Piccadilly Circus, still the lions and Nelson, still the fireplace sanctum under the stairs in St. James's Club, still Big Ben and Curzon Street, still the higgledy piggledy of Shepherds Market. There was still Mrs. Beddoes, charwoman these many years to that kind Miss Janet and her beautiful sister Miss Rosalind, poor and snobbish. And today, being the wedding, was a holiday, for Mrs. Beddoes was going inside...
...Johnston has a secretary, a small, attractive, dark-haired Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, who sits at a desk outside the gubernatorial sanctum and asks people their business when they come in. Mrs. Hammonds and her husband, a physician whom Mr. Johnston appointed State Health Commissioner, moved into an apartment adjoining the Johnstons' last winter. Later the Johnstons took a house, with the Hammondses on the ground floor. Here, too, Mrs. Hammonds inquires the business of callers...
...CRIMSON regrets deeply to admit that error like a foul, cankerous growth crept unnoticed and uninvited into its editorial sanctum to contaminate, if not totally infect a comment labelled "Let Them See" in the issue of October 14. The exhortation to visual perception was hardly necessary. The H. A. A. is argus-eyed and the CRIMSON can claim no immunity from a righteous protest, To be brief, it has tilted with a windmill, bayed at the moon, shied at a clothes horse. In short, it is not true that undergraduates are included in the draw for football tickets...
Each Friday afternoon Long Island residents have noted a huge limousine rolling placidly about the country. Within they have noted five men sitting around a table. This was the partners' sanctum, and in it for some years the brains of Doubleday, Page & Co. have gathered once a week in conference. A huger limousine will now be seen; a specially constructed Packard with six seats around the table...