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While Morning's at Seven, now at the Lyceum Theater, first appeared on Broadway in 1939, it is not a relic from the crowded attic of nostalgia. Playwright Osborn, now 78, perceived a world with the family as its center of gravity and the blood tie as life's enduring nourishment...
Shortly before Thanksgiving last year I decided to clean out my attic, and reluctantly agreed that I should dispose of my collection of 42 years of TIME magazines. But after I mentioned to a friend the dilemma of how to dispose of them, she requested the issues for her children's birth dates. Her mother then suggested that others might want to avail themselves of the same opportunity...
...Army coat that General George Custer wore on his Western campaigns is among the items of sartorial memorabilia stashed away in the "nation's attic," along with the coat Admiral Robert Peary took to the North Pole and the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore to Ford's Theater on the night he was assassinated. Now the Smithsonian Institution has chosen to enshrine the brown leather jacket that became Arthur Fonzerelli's trademark through seven hit seasons of TV's Happy Days comedy series. Actor Henry Winkler, 34, who went from unknowndom to stardom as Fonzi...
...cost energy audits of ratepayers' houses. The offers are being accepted by the hundreds of thousands. "There are frenzied people out there," says Austin Randolph, who handles such audits in Westchester County, N.Y., for Consolidated Edison. For a nominal $10 he investigates a house from basement to attic, then makes a written report to the owners suggesting improvements in thermostat type and location, windows, weather stripping and insulation, complete with cost estimates and anticipated savings. Randolph's audit on his own gas-heated four-bedroom home in Hillcrest, N.Y., persuaded him to begin a three-year up grading that will...
This conservation ethic extends to basic attitudes and the smallest things. An average French family saves 18% of its income and West Germans put aside 12%, vs. just 5% in the U.S., which has the lowest savings rate of all industrial countries. Houses are only rarely heated from attic to basement. Apartment-house hall lights are connected to timers and only stay on a minute or so while someone passes through. Eating out is a luxury reserved for special occasions. In the end, judgments about the relative wealth of Europeans and Americans turn on one's definition of prosperity...