Word: augering
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Carter the perfectionist is evident in the woodshop. He never uses nails or screws, but painstakingly cuts and notches the joints together. He prefers hand tools to electric for more quality. He has actually made several of his own tools; among them are a hollow auger and a bow saw, and they hang neatly on the wall. He began explaining how to cut chair rungs to size and showed a little exasperation when he thought his visitor's attention was wandering. Carter puts his name on all his pieces with a branding iron. And he pointed...
...such, HIID appears to be a highly unusual, and perhaps extremely significant new program for Harvard, which needs a new foreign-policy image to counter the one created for it by the exploits of its former government professor in Washington. At any rate, it seems to auger a willingness, at least at the top, to allow the University greater direct participation in the world around it, an old "radical" idea...
...Brian Auger has survived both Julie Driscoll, and numerous changes in what the English call rock and roll, and has surfaced, fronting an outfit called Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, at Paul's Mall, and will be there this week. You might also want to struggle out to Lenox and catch America at Tanglewood, seeing as how their Boston concert was cancelled. Judy Collins warbles (ouch) at Suffold Downs for the Sunset Series, Monday night, and the New York Dolls are booked into a place out in Revere. Where else. --F.V.B...
...Auger was 49 when a heart attack forced him to retire in 1943. He left Stockton, bought a long, narrow 51 acre strip of land running between the shore and the coastal highway south of Santa Barbara, and started to work on his town. He built a roadside assortment of children's delights: merry-go-rounds, a zoo, a miniature train, donkey rides, toy stores, snack shops-all painted red and white and encrusted with Christmas decorations. Above the largest shop in the village, a 20-foot concrete Santa, his landmark, protruded from the chimney. Auger presided over...
There was a sign near the highway, "Santa Claus, [elev.] 9 feet, pop. 108," and a post office substation where extra workers were hired to handle up to 10,000 pieces of mail that passed through each day during the Christmas season. Auger's wife took out the last of their savings and bought him a mod sleigh-a small plane with Santa Claus faces painted on its sides-and Auger flew into Santa Monica and Los Angeles with a sack over his shoulder. Local civic clubs would arrange for scores of kids to greet him: "The kids would...