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...memoirs, Clarke tells of a portrait of Shakespeare that had eyes like the Mona Lisa: wherever he went in the small, dark attic room where it hung, the eyes would follow him. At first he was deathly afraid of the portrait, but eventually its fearful mystery began to overcome him. It would draw him out of his bed in the middle of the night and as he walked up the stairs a fight would begin between what he called his will and his imagination. Clarke said that his will and his imagination. Clarke said that his will usually...
...husband was up in the attic trying to figure out where the old staircase went," explained Catharine Coster of Newtown, Conn. "He pulled layers and layers of wallpaper off the attic walls looking." What Retired Executive Allan Coster eventually discovered was not a secret passage but precious pentimento. Still on the walls, beneath 40 years of papering, was the doodling of Humorist James Thurber, who had lived in the house in the 1930s. There is "no question" that the art work is that of the former New Yorker writer and cartoonist. Says Helen Thurber, the humorist's widow...
There was not a great deal of contact with the Nazis, no pervasive feeling of the evil of the society. Although Schroder's father worked for the Nazis he was never in the party himself, and Schroder remembers that once he hid an anti-Nazi in their attic, telling his children the man was a retarded uncle, unable to speak...
...year-old Goetz Country Club cone-top cans-all unopened-that had been lying in the musty basement of an old bar. Robert Myers of Oakland, Calif, traveled all the way across the continent to Owl's Head, N.Y., after hearing of a lode in the attic of an abandoned railroad station; sure enough, he uncovered thousands of different pre-World War II makes and became overnight the J. Paul Getty of candom...
...scribbler we'd like him to be. We owe these revelations to Nicholas Meyer (evidently a hack on the rise, he wrote 400 film reviews for his college paper) who had the good fortune to be in the right place when Watson's last manuscript surfaced in a London attic 31 years after it left Dr. Watson's control...