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Your story in TIME, Aug. 12 is swell, but when you refer to Marblehead as a "smug Boston suburb," it's just too bad. Imagine Marblehead a suburb of anything...
...buyers had registered in July, highest number since 1929. And the extraordinary influx of retailers' representatives seeking not only clothing for men, women & children but also jewelry, leather goods, draperies, toilet goods, toys, house furnishings, bedding, linen, fur coats, floor coverings, silverware, watches, stationery, continued to swell New York's population on into August...
...want to thank somebody up there for giving me a swell break on my book, They Died With Their Boots On (TIME. July...
...through the back-breaking gymnastics of shoving miniature ships around a linoleum floor? If it is to reduce the girth of the Generals -swell. But from a standpoint of gastronomical efficiency, which in some way effects brain maneuvers, it occurred to a layman that they might put their destroyers up on a table and walk around it, shoving their battleships, cruisers and destroyers in much easier posture...
With $5 in his pocket, bulky, vigorous Author Thomas Clayton Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River) arrived in Manhattan after four months abroad. Said he to newshawks: "There's one swell thing about Americans?as a race we are not snobs. . . . For one week I had a service flat in London with an English butler that was such a prude he would make Ruggles of Red Gap look like a blacksmith. . . . One night I decided to find out just what kind of a fellow he was under his servant's mask. I gave him so many whiskeys...