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...Provo, Utah, and sent it in "because it wasn't expensive." She was accepted, and borrowed $200 from her grandmother to get there. Her favorite class was art. Jill thought she could be "one of the great ones, painting masterpieces." The students were told to draw a barn, and the results were displayed. Jill checked them out, feeling more confident about her own gifts as she went along. Then she saw one "that shook me like wheels spinning. It was art, far better than mine. It showed a loose shingle on the barn roof and a cobweb...
When Brick's three sons, Mike, Lester and Arnold, came back from World War II, the family moved to Albia, some 65 miles southeast of Des Moines, and set up a factory in an old barn. Five railroads then intersected in town, making it a likely place for manufacturing. (Other captains of industry did not flock to Albia, however, and two of the railroads are now gone.) When orders were down, as they often were, the Knesses built houses. They farmed and did some landscaping. They installed toilets and dug septic tanks. They fixed almost any machine that needed...
...says Mike, recalling the years he, Lester, 60, and Arnold, 56, struggled to keep the trap going. "Each of us faltered at times, but then the others were there to help. Teamwork isn't easy. We learned it out of necessity." Four years ago, Brick's old barn got too small for the growing business. The family decided to construct a new factory and pretty much built it themselves. Brick died of Parkinson's disease just after the decision was made. He never saw the new place, but he would have liked...
...envelops the stage. No wonder the audience leaps to its feet in wild applause: another smash by Mike Nichols, director or producer of such successes as Catch 22, Annie and The Odd Couple. This time, however, Mike is east of Hollywood and way off-off-off Broadway at a barn in Scottsdale, Ariz. His Miss America is a white Arab mare listed unromantically on the program as "Lot No. 1 -Fantazja." Other ingénues should be so lucky. After 17 minutes of brisk bidding, Fantazja sells for a record $450,000. By show's end 31 Nichols-bred...
...American tradition that goes back to community barn raisings three centuries ago, philanthropy is now big business, but is it always a truthful business? Cheerful givers usually know precious little about a sector of the economy that in 1978 claimed a record $39.6 billion-an average of $180 for every man, woman and child in the nation -for donations to the Red Cross, United Way, CARE, the March of Dimes and some 800,000 lesser organizations raising money in the name of charity...