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Whitefield, N.H., Chase Barn Playhouse: The stage version of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel...
...days, no New England town was complete without its village idiot, but now there are the summer theater managers. How many times, after all, can a man watch Springtime for Henry in his own barn? But last week one impresario decided that he was not the only unbalanced character in town. After 29 years at Maine's Kennebunkport Playhouse, Robert C. Currier took an ad in the local paper, put his famous theater up for sale, and explained why. "I have felt for some time," he said, "that a person must have an examination proving he's half...
Another first for Texas and the Clan Murchison-a unique manure! Here, in America's Rhineland, our Angus provide us with tons of the stuff. When it is heaped in the barn, no one's nose is offended. When it is spread through the vineyards, the effluvium floats for miles. Perhaps the Murchisons will be luckier in financial maneuvers than in choosing metaphors...
...married 27 years to the same woman. In 1959 he created something of a stir when he became a Roman Catholic. Not long ago, he talked to his old hunting pal Ernest Hemingway, who lay ill in Minnesota. Drawled the old cowboy: "I'll bet I reach the barn before you do." It was a line worthy of the Virginian, and only Coop himself could have topped it. A few weeks earlier, at a Friars Club dinner in his honor, he rose, carrying the secret of his cancer, and spoke: "If someone were...
...tone, but is consistent in its lack of facility. The Faculty profiles are soapily reverent and incredibly uninformative. Some articles are presented in a flat, uninteresting style, while others reach for and miss flowery heights ("The snake enters and is metamorphosed: joint by joint it dissolves, filling the barn-mixer-exam-hall-box with paper-clips, each looking for its own special assortment of cards and papers to belong to. . . ."). The writing in 325 is generally bad, and, what is worse, terribly dull in its overall effect...