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Today, Dunn is still to be found cleaning windows and sweeping floors in the chem labs, but when his work is done he returns to the creative world. At home he paints in his attic studio, grinds lenses and mirrors for the telescopes and telescope cameras he is constructing, tinkers with his radio transmitter and other electronic creations, or practices on one of the magnificent violins he has built...
...wealthy, friendly man who owns so much real estate that it takes all his time to manage it. But, until a few days ago, not even his close friends knew what Bachelor Cooper has been doing a good many quiet mornings and nights in the attic office in his big, late-Victorian house. For eleven years, Neighbor Cooper has been writing a novel...
...discovered that "I have a freak memory-I can remember indefinitely anything that is not important." Of his prizewinning novel he says: "I'm still amazed. I'd resigned myself to years of shipping it around." What is he thinking of calling it? Cooper points to the attic trunk where he used to hide his manuscripts when friends dropped in: "I've hit my knee and torn my pants on that trunk so many times that I've taken to calling the whole thing just...
...fixed. He owned a local hardware store and served five times as mayor of Madisonville. To pick up extra money and toughen himself for football at the University of Tennessee, young "Keef" worked through one summer in a Harlan County (Ky.) coal mine. There he lived in a sweaty attic with four other miners and developed a real sympathy for coal miners and unions...
...Hollywood sound track for a Chinese street scene, sometimes like a symphony orchestra tuning up, occasionally like a Hawaiian string trio, and once during the argument between the seer and Oedipus, the rat-a-tat-tat of one of the percussions over a loudspeaker sounded like mice in the attic. The best thing about Partch's music was that it seldom got in the way of the actors, who half-spoke, half-sang the lines. After four curtain calls for the actors, Composer Partch, in deep purple shirt and tweed jacket, came onstage to a roar of bravos...