Word: attics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frame is not a new idea; the first man who leaned two poles together and threw a skin over them had a rudimentary version of it. The real test of an A-frame is living in it. Its sloping walls make the interior resemble a giant attic. The sleeping loft, fitted with mattresses or cots, is tucked under the roof and is reached by a ladder. But for the adaptable family or unfettered weekend group, a well-planned, well-finished A-frame can be a marvel of fun and utility...
...mind when he sent his two portraits to England via General Reed: he hoped that West would recommend a first-rate engraver for his portraits. For some reason that lies buried in the past, General Reed's in-laws, a family named De Berdt, consigned them to their attic. One evening last spring, an art dealer got to talking to a member of the De Berdt family who casually mentioned that there were two early American paintings somewhere in his house. They were identified as Peale's, and the news was flashed to Montclair's alert director...
...customer who sheepishly handed over a $10 gold certificate to pay for five gallons of gas. A German-born Bronx carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was quickly arrested. He denied his guilt, but in his garage police found $14,600 of the ransom money, and a slat in his attic flooring matched one section of the ladder wood that Arthur Koehler had analyzed...
...best of the Maine pieces is The Corduroy Pants. Bert Fellows has sold his farm for $1,200 to Abe Mitchell, whom he has known all his life. But two weeks after the sale, Bert remembers that he has left his other pair of pants in the farmhouse attic. He asks Abe to let him fetch the pants, but Abe, although the pants are too big for him, will not let go of the windfall...
Williamstown, Mass., Summer Theater: Toys in the Attic, with Anne Revere abandoning her Broadway role of the unworldly spinster Anna to attempt Irene Worth's cool, sophisticated Albertine...