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...Castle Closet. Not until last summer, 18 years later, did Dieckmann, now a U.S. citizen, get back to France. This time, he wrote, telephoned and called on the baron. Finally, the baron told him to go out to his castle outside Fécamp: there were some papers there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dream Chaser | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Next day, Dieckmann began searching the castle. For eight days he ransacked boxes in a closet of the servants' quarters. Finally, he had emptied the closet-except for a bunch of papers lying loose and uncovered at the back. There, the fourth paper he pulled out proved to be a Diderot manuscript that scholars had never known of before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dream Chaser | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Carpenters have constructed a bulletin board for all house notices and are now working on a linen closet for the kitchen. No traces of lines have appeared as yet except for the weekly Gordon Supply bedding deliveries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 20 Walker St. Squawks, Gets Profile Lifted | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

...Closet. Politicians have always been bought and controlled in Japan; but no prewar scandals revealed such spectacular corruption as the Showa Denko case. Japanese newspaper readers began to laugh when cops flushed Banboku Ono, secretary general of the Democratic Liberal party, out of a linen closet in an inn in Kyoto where he was in hiding. They laughed again when Cabinet Member Takeo Kurusu rushed into print with an announcement that he, personally, was not involved with Showa Denko. Next week government agents raided Kurusu's home and slapped him into Kosuge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Failure? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...center will contain both single and double rooms. The singles will be 9 by 13 fact and equipped with desk, desk-chair, couch-bed, dresser closet and bookshelf. The doubles will be 18 by 13 feet, and will be designed so that they can be diviled by a curtain for privacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Plan Aims at Centralizing Grad Life | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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