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...bolting the cellar door after them, guerrillas managed to dash up to the front door with a small charge, and blow it in. For two hours or more George and his son fought on, first at the staircase leading to the second floor, then at the landing of the attic. Finally they were forced up onto the roof...
...there was more evidence-a plump, heavy package which had been lying in a Brooklyn attic like a dusty bomb during all the ten years in which Chambers had been trying to live down his past...
...Attic. One, entitled Christina's World had cost Wyeth 3½ months of steady work. "I'd go up to Christina's attic every morning at 8:30," he recalled, "and not come down until supper time. Christina's a close friend of mine and crippled. Every other day she drags herself across the field from her house to visit the graves of her family. People might call that a gloomy thing to paint, but I don't look at it that...
...little paunchy and careless of dress. With his pale face, grey-fringed, bumpy bald head, and shrewd appraising eyes, he looks like a country doctor. At the end of his 17-hour day his cheeks are sunken and he puffs a little as he climbs to the attic bedroom of his stately 22-room Georgian house in Richmond's swank Hampton Gardens. But Freeman has no intention of dropping any of his fulltime jobs. For 33 years he has been editor of the Richmond News Leader, of which he is also a "substantial" stockholder.* And for 23 years Freeman...
...home with his wife is a leisurely, almost time-wasting meal, in a spacious dining room from whose walls handsome young Lieut. Lee looks down. At 2 :30 sharp he is in bed. At 3 (he wakes himself almost on the dot) he begins his "second day." From his attic bedroom he steps into his study for 2½ solid hours of work on Washington. Here visitors, and even his family, are forbidden. On the walls are autographed pictures of his friends Winston Churchill and Admiral Nimitz, a letter from President Roosevelt thanking Freeman for suggesting the term "liberation" instead...