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...last year Helena Hall, a vacationing Bennington girl, found a yellowed manuscript in the family attic. The manuscript was Caroline Le Roy Webster's diary of her trip to Europe (1839) with her husband, Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, and his daughter Julia. Published for the first time, as Mr. W. and I, this long-lost journal has the stylistic simplicity of a 19th-Century...
Danger now is that local scrap collec tions may bog down because scrap dealers are receiving more metal than they can handle. When scrap piles in community dumping grounds do not move quickly, people who searched from attic to cellar for contributions may get disgusted with the whole drive. Actually dealers are ship ping scrap to the mills as quickly as pos sible and at a satisfactory rate. But deal ers are handicapped because the publicly collected scrap requires careful sorting (about 30% of the take thus far has been metal not suited for steelmaking - non-ferrous metals, galvanized zinc...
...museum has its rhino skull at last. It was found amid a heap of dusty bones in the Museum's attic, where it has lain since...
...rough stage, with the windowless cabin in the background, looked synthetic. The linsey-woolsey costumes looked as if they had just come out of attic trunks. But the music—the singing, fiddling and twanging of guitars, banjos and dulcimers—was the real McCoy: mountain music, with rough edges as unpolished as stones. On the hills near Ashland, Ky., country folk and tourists gathered this week for Ashland's twelfth annual American Folk Song Festival...
...promoted a campaign to point the reproving finger at housewives, a logical examination of sugar consumption unmasks the subterfuge. Had not Leon Henderson's stamp plan already nullified their small hoardings, it could still be shown that every housewife in the land could stock her pantry, fill her attic and basement, and still not equal the consumption of the soft drink, chewing gum, and whiskey industries. Each of them takes an average of a billion tons of sugar off the market annually. Hoarding is the chief cause of the sugar shortage. But industrial hoarders, not housewives, are the culprits...