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...downstairs, wished that someone would come. By 10 o'clock they were hungrier than they had ever been before. They went out through the white picket fence and stood watching the quiet highway. A few cars went by, but no one stopped when they, waved. When the phone rang, Peter stood on tiptoe and managed to lift the receiver. But he could not quite speak into the mouthpiece and he finally let the receiver fall back on the hook...
...phone rang again. The caller was a friend of Peter's mother: Mrs. James Thurber, wife of the humorist-cartoonist. This time Peter was ready. He hauled the piano stool over to the bookcase, mounted the stool and said: "Come quick. Mummy's hurt...
...over? The paratroopers hung their own shirts from the windows for recognition signals. The firing only grew heavier. They yelled to cut it out, but their friends could not hear. Then a U.S. paratrooper found a bullet-pierced German bugle. He thrust it out the window. Above the firing rang the shrill familiar notes of "chow call...
...many an M.P., and of many a plain Briton, Manny Shinwell's question still rang: "What is the difference...
...Rockefeller Jr. and Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, she asked A. Conger Goodyear to head the Museum's original organizing committee. As director they appointed Alfred H. Barr Jr.-who retired last January (his successor has not been appointed). At its opening show (November 1929) the hand counters rang up the first 50,000 of what have since become some 3,400,000 admissions. When "Lillie" Bliss died about a year later she left the bulk of her collection to the Museum-with the canny proviso that the directors raise $750,000. They did. Last year admission fees plus other...