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...Ravens & the Foxes. Fiumicino's clock had been shattered in the war. Since most townsmen had no watches of their own, and since even a fishing village must move according to the relentless schedule of modern time, repairing the clock was an urgent matter. So everyone agreed when strapping, round-faced Father Bernardoni called together all parties for a raffle. The united effort yielded 70,000 lire. Then dissension began. Father Bernardoni insisted that 6,000 lire be used for parish charity which could not be delayed "because we can't let people die of hunger to have...
Though few of his fellow townsmen in Princeton knew or cared, he was generally acknowledged to be the world's authority on Wordsworth. When, in the course of his researches into Wordsworth's life, he discovered that the poet had fathered an illegitimate child, he was as distressed as if the scandal had happened in his own family. It was a long time before he could bring himself to publish what he had found...
...most popular bachelors at Mayfair parties. The Navy gave him shore duty at Corsham in Wiltshire, instructing seamen in current events and swimming. Many an evening Philip spent in the "local," The Methuen Arms, playing darts and taking good-naturedly a mild joshing from the townsmen on reports of his romance with the Princess...
...official holiday in the town of Princeton, NJ. Mayor Minot (Mike) Morgan Jr., a Princeton University graduate ('35) himself, had urged all 7,719 townsmen to "lay aside normal tasks" in honor of the university. Flags hung from windows and fluttered from lamp posts. At 9:30, the presidential train from Washington pulled slowly into the station. Harry Truman, who never went to college, had come to get his tenth honorary Doctor of Laws degree and to help celebrate Princeton's sooth year...
...although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down off the barrel. 'I slop out a lot,' says Lena." "Somebody Loses." The characters in Chet Shafer's guileless anthology are seldom the local boys who made good. Some of his Rotarian fellow townsmen, who dislike his stuff because it makes Three Rivers out to be the queen of hick towns, have on occasion asked the Journal to throw him out. Chet dislikes them just as much. Says he: "Rotary ruins little towns like this. Gives them big-town ideas. Commerce! Progress! Whenever there...