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...present facilities of two rooms on the second floor of Phillips Brooks House were originally set up before the war and the coming shift to the new location on the corner of Kirkland Street and Kirkland Place, along with the consequent expansion, marks a continuance of that school...
This year it took professional movers a full week, working every night, to shift the morgue to new and larger quarters. Their cargo had been-and still is-separated into four major categories: 1) books (standard reference works and pamphlets on all phases of world doings); 2) periodicals (the most important U.S. and foreign magazines and trade journals); 3) subject file (general material on everything from Absinthe to Zoos); 4) biographical file (information on well known peopie, living or dead, from AE, Irish Poet George William Russell's pseudonym, to Zworykin, Vladimir K., Russian-born U.S. physicist...
When things get too stuffy, this modern chronicler has only to shift his scene from Paris to Warsaw, London to Budapest, from the back room, of a leather-goods shop to the cockpit of a speeding plane. And as if the wonders of the Air Age were not enough, Author Romains has a fine eye for the contemporary intimacy of sex and politics...
Whatever the reason for the shift, it seemed a good guess that, with the war over, Russia wants her military leaders to take more & more of a back seat and mingle less & less with outsiders. From Washington last week came a significant story. When General Walter Bedell Smith, who had established close, cordial contacts with many a Soviet brasshat in Berlin, reached Moscow as U.S. Ambassador last spring, he invited seven of them (including Zhukov) to dinner at the Embassy. Only one (not Zhukov) came...
Another of Samborski's wizardries may shift Bob Carison over to the left garden from the position in the sunfield in the last till. Crawford "Call-me-Carl" Hurbbell will take over the stand in right unless he is called on to help out on the mound. Bill Harford, who has been hitting with increasing regularity, will round out the Crimson gardens...