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In Paris, the gloom surrounding the council's final sessions at the Palais de Chaillot inspired yet another figure of speech, less homespun than the Hollander's simile about the New England domestic problem. The scene, said one British delegate, was like Haydn's Farewell Symphony (in...
It was an amiable protest, for, like nearly every other Hollander, the mayor of Katwijk was in high holiday mood. For seven days last week, stolid shopkeepers and sturdy burghers from Friesland to Limburg, from Gelderland to the sea put by their staid reserve to celebrate a golden jubilee and...
Petelka's system, like one invented by a Hollander in 1940, uses numbers to identify words in different languages with the same meanings. To do business with an Eskimo, an Iranian rug dealer would trot out his Persian number-dictionary, look up the numbers for the words in his...
The Hollander's enterprise has also prodded lagging Kilkee lovers. Reported Mrs. Kay Haugh, village postmistress, last week: "Since Dick Bergman wrote for a Kilkee girl many young bachelors, courting for years, have proposed."
RICHARD HOLLANDER c/o Postmaster New York City