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...thin-haired gentleman who runs the atelier-type Grolier Book Shoppe on upper Plympton Street. Cairnie's tastes, a hasty inspection of the shelves revealed, range from Aeschylus to Zweig, not excluding Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, and Lewis Mumford. "Of course, I don't do a tremendous business," the attic entreprenur claimed, as he frightened off a young Radcliffe studen looking for a volume of Muzzey's "American History," slightly used, "but it's a living...
Nation's Attic. From the moment of foundation, the Smithsonian was overwhelmed by an embarrassing flood of "national treasures": stuffed animals, historical relics, antiques, paintings, statues. Most had little to do with the "diffusion of knowledge...
Thanks to F.D.R.'s own interest in history and his place in it, his papers are not stored, like most presidents', in a family attic or scattered casually in trunks here & there. The Roosevelt papers, gathered in the $350,000 Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, are already open, for the most part, to qualified scholars. Some letters and documents, dealing with state secrets and living officials are still sealed up, and will remain so for an as-yet-unspecified term-presumably for at least a generation. It took over a half-century to produce anything near...
...spring a housewife's fancy turns to thoughts of cleaning. Britain in the wake of war was as restless and ruthless as any of them. In her musty old attic many an outworn, heart-warming trinket of tradition was being dusted off, examined and discarded in the harsh light of accuracy and efficiency...
Cleanup. In Bayport, N.Y., Burton J. Downer cleaned out his attic, left some old clothes on the doorstep for the junkman, days later got them back from the laundry with a $9.54 cleaning bill...