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Last week preparations for Christmas went on as usual. In the east end of the second-floor corridor stood the small family tree, decorated with ornaments handed down via attic trunk from one Christmas to the next. And, as in the past, the President's plans called for the familiar, pleasant ritual of the season-the wishing of Merry Christmas to the members of his office staff, the scene in which the President and his wife receive the members of the White House staff and their children, the lighting of the Christmas tree outside the White House on Christmas...
...Liberty, Mo., Professor Chester J. Prince climbed to his attic to see about stopping drafts of which his family complained. He hammered and nailed, did a good job, sealed himself completely...
...Italians managed to creep along. Early this week they were at the gates of Ioannina. The spearhead was eventually supposed to go to Larissa, whence a railway and a good highway lead to the Attic peninsula and Athens...
...make pictures of the hilly country around Eagle Bridge. Most of her pictures showed scenes and events of farm life: boiling maple sap on the winter snow, rounding up the turkey for Thanksgiving, covered bridges, Model T Fords, bonfires. Her picture frames she took from old mirrors in the attic. Once she attempted an allegory: a picture of an angel saving two children from falling over a cliff. She labeled it "The Gardin Angle" (Guardian Angel...
Last week, at Manhattan's new little Galerie St. Etienne, Anna Moses had her first one-man show. It consisted of 35-odd paintings, nearly her whole output, still primly mounted in the old looking-glass frames from the Moses attic. Sophisticated Manhattan gallery-goers were charmed by her carefully stippled flower beds, speckled snowstorms, shutter-green mountains. Again Manhattan critics raved: "A challenge to scores of more sophisticated painters," compared her canvases to those of famed German exile George Grosz...