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...Master sighed, put away his box of little stars, and let the chart fall amidst the other rubbish on his desk. It was the new system of House assignment, he decided. He never got any of the clean ones...
...watch his reaction to the presence of female wolves." A.P. and U.P. filed their own "wolf boy" stories, though no one from the wire services had actually seen the wolf boy. Meanwhile, at the government hospital, the doctor-superintendent (and source of the stories) was reveling in the publicity. Amidst a swelling tide of local protest, the sick, deformed child was put in a ward where spectators saw an attendant on hand to poke him and make him howl and moan. Admission charge: 1 anna...
London's Victoria & Albert Museum was staging one of the oddest special exhibitions in its history. Amidst the elaborate splendor of Indian carpets and inlaid furniture last week were close to 100 watercolors that had once sold for a penny and under. They dated from 1830 to 1930, and all came from the environs of a temple to Kali, wife of the Hindu god Shiva, in Calcutta...
...publicity," says Grandma, "that I'm too old to care for now." The present-day realities of life amidst her family are still what matter most to her. Some 30-odd descendants and in-laws live nearby, and her eldest daughter, Winona, shares Grandma's house. The low, efficient, L-shaped structure-with picture windows, false shutters, garage and freezer-was put up for her by Grandma's son Forrest and two grandsons. They took the plan from a magazine illustration and finished building it two years...
...American schoolboys learn about prehistoric cave paintings, they are usually taught about the ones at Altamira, Spain. Enthusiasts may go on to study those of Southern France, Africa and Australia. Amazingly, the nation's own Stone Age art treasures-mainly concentrated in the Southwest -are seldom mentioned. Yet amidst the labyrinthine grandeur of Arizona's Canyon de Chelly (pronounced shay) are thousands of caves, largely still unexplored by white men, where Indians long lived and left samples of their...