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...office ..." With that letter, in 1803, Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and William Clark off on their famous expedition. True to their instructions, the captains did put down their observations, and most of these have been carefully preserved and published. Then, in 1953, additional documents were discovered in the attic of an old house in St. Paul, Minn. Last week those papers were the subject of a lawsuit that had many a U.S. scholar, collector and librarian on edge...
...could not sell at the market, he began to tie himself to the farm. His decision to drop music was painful, but Joe Moore says firmly, "I don't like to do anything half." So into the scrap heap went his ideas of singing professionally, into the attic went the tenor saxophone his mother had given him, and into the business of farming went Joe Moore...
...Pennsylvania Quaker Edward Hicks (1780-1849), whose primitive allegories (see color page) were unknown even to the leading painters of his own day. Not until 1930, when one of his paintings, Peaceable Kingdom (of which Hicks completed some 80 versions), was found in an antique-dealer's attic, was his name even known. The similarity of his work to Henri Rousseau's and a new appreciation of primitives, quickly placed Hicks as one of the most original of early American artists: the late French Painter Fernand Léger called him "the finest American of them...
...boys were the young flower of the nation, but what went on after lights-out left a trail of rotten petals from attic to parade ground...
...That old devil sex was getting troublesome, too, and a visit to a local prostitute only added to his confused ideas. When a couple of sadistic pals decide to make a butt of an effeminate fellow student, Törless is both disgusted and attracted. Up in a dark attic, the victim is systematically beaten to a physical and emotional pulp...