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...right direction; you stumble. Your hand reaches out to steady yourself, and finds another hand in it. Funny, you never think to ask Why. She is there, and that's all, skating with you. She has brown hair tied back with a ribbon and a trim green dress. You are both talking at once; you have so much to say. Just as though you have known each other for years...
...Zurich the party paused midway on the journey from Rome to Berlin. Hearty was the greeting from the Swiss, who made no secret of their fear for the next few months-with mud drying on the far bank of the Rhine, with sunlight swallowing the Alpine Valley fogs, with trim fighting planes, wing-marked with a white cross on a red field, regularly droning overhead, with the Federal Council of seven Swiss elder statesmen quietly upping the army from 150,000 to 500,000 in preparation for good weather. Hearty and well-publicized was Sumner Welles's luncheon with...
Born in South Boston in 1866, Keezer came to the Square after a youth spent at paper-peddling and in the prize ring. He fought professionally at 105 pounds and looks in trim even today. Growing up with Cambridge, he watched other tailors--Durant, Brown, Snow and Pinkos--come and go. By the time he had a turnover of two thousand suits a year, he had established himself in "big business." The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce elected him to membership. With his accumulated capital he built the first stores in North Cambridge, and its first theatre. Then he satisfied...
...Trim little countries are Norway, Sweden, Denmark. And trimmed in a horrifyingly perfect balance are the alternate disasters that await them no matter which side they turn toward in World War II-or, very possibly, even if they just keep on looking dead ahead toward neutrality...
...property in Memphis and refused to pay taxes to Crump collectors. Tom Collier, who is a lawyer by avocation, devoted years to not paying taxes, finally lost much of his family's rich inheritance after 32 years of litigation and 750 tax suits. Between times he kept in trim by running barefoot in the early morning, accommodated the local photographers with outlandish poses (see cut), regularly ran for office against Crump candidates, regularly lost. (He served two terms in the State Legislature before Mr. Crump came to power.) Last week, for the third time, Mr. Collier again stood...