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...drove higher between high snow walls, the sun came out and the 14,000-ft. peak above them hung dazzling white against a blue mountain sky. At Paradise Valley, 5,400 feet above sea level, the President threw snowballs, stared at the heights through glasses, went into sprawling Paradise Inn to play a few pieces on the piano...
...Bunker Hill had won her Navy nickname of "Holiday Inn" because her career started with holiday strikes (Armistice Day, Christmas and New Year's) against New Britain and New Ireland, a year and a half ago. Last week Holiday Inn, closed for alterations at Puget Sound Navy Yard, ranked next to the Franklin as the most cruelly ravaged U.S. ship ever to reach port under her own power...
This evening I called the people of this little town together to elect a new mayor. . . . Since I speak German fluently, I opened the meeting, and . . . Herr , owner of the local inn, took over and read a previously made-up list of names for the posts of mayor, assistant mayor, town clerk, treasurer, and town crier. He asked anybody who had any objections to raise his hand...
...Here in London it is a warm spring day, and you know what spring in southern England means. I have been across to Henekey's Bar by the side of Elizabeth's Grays Inn, where a bit of medieval still stands. There among the barrels I have had my beer and sandwich, stunned as if I had lost a personal friend-for it was this morning that we learned you had lost your President...
Congratulations on your good taste in printing the Thomas Hardy poem [TIME, April 23]. How long will it be before "events [will] have freshened [the] old truth" of the Hardy poem which contains the line "Had he and I but met by some old ancient inn...