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Americans had better start looking in the attic: grandfather's old glass paperweight is having a big boom in the art world. Rare old specimens fetch as much...
...seven had been eaten; the three in the third boat were never found. There was no official investigation; none of the survivors ever stood trial. Most lived to a ripe old age, though they never quite got over their experiences. Mate Chase used to cache food away in his attic. Captain Pollard, trying to tell the story, broke off: "I can tell you no more-my head is on fire at the recollection...
Like a homeowner with a rainy Sunday on his hands, Dr. Leonard Carmichael, new head of Washington's Smithsonian Institution, decided it was high time he tidied up the "Nation's Attic." After a long, appalled look, he reported to the House Appropriations Committee that the dingy stone museum needs a million-dollar spring cleaning. All the exhibits of man's skill, from the stone age to the jet plane, said he, are crammed into crowded displays that belong to the "horse & buggy and gaslight...
When he was four, his playthings were banished to the attic "so that he should learn that there were more serious things in life than toys." At the age of five, when he developed such "sinful propensities" as a love of lollipops, his rector uncle was called in to flog his bare bottom with a riding crop. Because he became understandably fond of a pet cat, it was taken from him and hanged...
...prize of $100 is offered to undergraduates for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in Harry Austryn Wolfson's "Philo...