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...next day a number of platitudinous resolutions on housing were brushed aside for a specific promise. Cried 38-year-old Harmar Nicholls, M.P. for Peterborough: "Our message should be this: that from existing stocks and available labor we should guarantee to give housing first call up to 300,000 houses a year." When the committee tried to sidetrack the figure 300,000, pandemonium broke loose, hundreds of voices chanted, "We want...
Right Hand. A fortnight ago, in the Telegraph's erudite gossip column, "London Day by Day," by "Peterborough" (Hugo Wertham), an unobtrusive item recorded an exceptional occurrence at the Telegraph itself. After 48 years on the staff, 70-year-old Editor Watson was retiring. His successor, who took over last week: grey-haired Colin Reith Coote, 56, deputy editor and Watson's right-hand man for the last five years...
...evidence with which to assault peripheral but important segments of the story told by Whittaker Chambers, onetime Communist courier and espionage agent. A Mrs. Margaret Kellog Smith, proprietor of a children's camp, refuted Chambers' testimony that Chambers and the Hisses had been together in Peterborough, N.H. on Aug. 10, 1937-she swore that Hiss had been at her camp near Chestertown, Md. Alger Hiss's brother Donald denied another item of Chambers' testimony-that Soviet Agent Colonel Bykov wanted Donald to steal State documents too. Donald testified that he had not gone to work...
...hated to leave the modern American comforts of his seven-room, prefabricated house in Pinehurst, N.C., solved the problem by knocking it down, packing it into 59 giant crates, and shipping it off to Ireland ahead of him. ¶ Annoyed at her gentleman friend, Evelyn Panagakis, 31, of Peterborough, N.H. got into a car, and made three runs on his parked automobile, smashing in the front, side and rear...
...Peterborough, Ont., the Examiner (circ. 13,376) talked back to an anachronistic editorial in the London Times. Louis St. Laurent, said the Times (without regard for Canada's sense of independent nationhood), could not become Prime Minister until the King, through the Governor General, Viscount Alexander, had approved. Said the Times: ". . . It is not likely that Lord Alexander will look beyond him." Cracked Peterborough's Examiner: "We think it is so unlikely as to be out of the question ... In suggesting such a thing the Times is sadly behind the times...