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Stout Curzon friends deny that he ever said any such thing but legend is a sturdy oak. Legend also says that in this room Sir Edward Grey worked all one night in 1914 and then at dawn, stepping to the window as London's street lights were being extinguished, cut this gem: "Lights are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lighted again in our time...
...Once admitted, he must follow a special strip of green carpet from room to room, never loitering, never turning back, never sitting down. At the end of an hour he will have had brief glimpses of $50,000,000 worth of pictures and will be ejected through the same oak door through which he entered...
...Pierce-Arrow bearing a District of Columbia license and another plate, emblazoned "USSS." From the door of the Little White House, President Roosevelt emerged. His bodyguard helped tuck him into the driver's seat of the Plymouth and off he tootled with the big car following, down Oak Road to Georgia Hall, main building of the Foundation, to circle around it to Atlanta Highway and the patients' pool...
...technical execution he entrusts to no jury, awards on his own hook to a print of his own choosing for reasons of his own. He gave it last week to Thomas W. Nason of Reading, Mass. for a finicky line engraving of two hayricks, a barn, a dying oak tree...
...Oak Park, Ill. the mother of Patricia Maguire, famed sleeping sickness victim who has been in a coma since February 1932 (TIME, April 15 et ante), announced: "Never would I want them to bring death to my Pat. I would be tempted to kill anyone who hinted that I'd want them to do anything to my girl...