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Harvard House is now watched over by a Mrs. Pplow, who lives on the premises, and who is continually deploring the misspelling of her name. She takes care of the Visitor's Books, one for Harvard men and another for other visitors. The non-Harvard guests must pay an admission fee of sixpence (12c), while Crimson cohorts may enter free...
...only visitor is his wife, the former Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, whom he married by proxy while imprisoned (TIME, June 13).* She takes him fresh linen every Friday. Dr. Fuchs explained that of course Gestapo agents have combed Kurt Schuschnigg's accounts, intimate letters and diplomatic correspondence in search of evidence to support the charges against him, and that a peculiarly ingenious device has been invented to break his will: Twice a day Prisoner Schuschnigg is forced to listen to the voices of Adolf Hitler and Propaganda Minister Goebbels, vilifying him at the top of their lungs, from...
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Charles Webster Hawthorne was 27 years old, had put in a few years as an art teacher, when he settled in Provincetown, Mass, in 1899. At that time Provincetown was a fishing village inhabited largely by Portuguese. A Chicago visitor said that Provincetown ladies decorated their hats with mackerel gills and swept their floors with halibut fins. But to Hawthorne, Provincetown's great natural resource was its summer light- brilliant and untempered, making houses, sand and wharves blaze against their backgrounds. In an old sail loft he established an art school. Before his death in 1930 it attracted...
...thick iron door equipped with a large bell-push and a speaking tube. The speaking tube runs through the grounds a good 50 yards to the servants' quarters. At one time the good Dr. Strauss had this speaking tube connected with a phonograph mechanism. When unwanted visitors rang the bell, a record would repeat monotonously, "Dr. Strauss is not at home. . . . Dr. Strauss is not at home." A second push of the bell would stop the record and open the door. But only Strauss's intimate friends knew enough to ring twice. Nowadays, when a visitor has been...