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Down several notches but also effective is "The Boy Those Father Owned a Barn" by James Bucchler. The descriptive passages are sharply sensory; the reader smells the kitchen and warms to the stove. But to accomplish this, Bucchler loads every noun with adjectives, so that the few action passages are heavy and slow...
...just completed Iris world-famous analysis of Thucydides when he was appointed Master of Eliot. Moving day, Finley recalls, was a dewildering experience. "The Master's residence was designed for Eliot's first Master, "Frisky" Merriman. He was a big man with four large children and he liked the barn-like size of these rooms. When Mrs. Finley and I toddled in with our two slender children, the place overwhelmed...
John Wilkes Booth had been the darling of the family. On Edwin fell the double burden of detesting the assassin while mourning the brother. In the one role, Edwin reimbursed the Virginia farmer whose barn had been burned down around brother John. In the other, he pleaded with the authorities to allow the Booths to give John's body Christian burial. He wrote to Secretary of War Stanton, who did not deign to reply. He wrote to General Grant, who ignored him too. It was President Andrew Johnson who at last handed over John's remains, the raven...
...They drew $125 a week apiece, but sent most of it home. They were featured performers, but, even on the bandstand, they dressed in peasanty blouses run up by their economical grandmother Guilfoyle. They were on the road most of the time, playing dance halls, Italian socials, college proms, barn dances in tobacco warehouses until 2 a.m. Afterward they would pile into their bus and ride through the night to the next stop. The girls were chaperoned by their Uncle George Guilfoyle. He would hold the second seat in the bus for the girls (Bandleader Pastor would have the front...
...nation's No. 2 classic, the Morris & Essex Show at Madison, NJ. Other breed champions: Pekingese Ch. Tai Chuo Sun of Dah Wong, owned by Sara F. Hodges and Aimée Ferret; Laura Franklin Delano's long-haired dachshund, Ch. Tytucker of Gypsy Barn; Mr. & Mrs. Steven G. Gillich's chowchow, Ch. Owhyo Wag-Gee (winner of 130 best-of-breed blue ribbons in four years); J. Stuart Walton's Ch. Lyn Mar's Clown (best basset hound at the Westminster show for the past three years...