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...maple-sirup world of his boyhood, he is saddened by what he sees. On the rocky, rugged hill where four successive generations of Holbrooks once farmed and raised their children, the wilderness is taking over, "marching from the edges of the old fields and pastures . . . advancing to the barn to break its ribs." As he gazes on his deserted schoolhouse and the ghostly, grass-choked neighboring farms, Historian Holbrook ponders three questions that have haunted his life...
Testing. In Ada, Okla., a farmer and his family went down to try out the comforts of their newly completed storm cellar, emerged an hour later to find that a tornado had swept away their house, barn, outbuildings...
...painting remained in the family until his son, the second Quincy Adams Shaw, offered it to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts four years ago. Museum officials could not bring themselves to refuse the picture, or to hang it either. It was wide as a barn door, and looked far too dull and dark for a genuine Tintoretto. They stored it in the cellar...
Since 1898, summer theaters has spread all over the nation, but the most important activity is in the East, where about 250 will open this year. Connecticut and Massachusetts are the most popular bases of operations for barn Belascos. The larger theaters in these states, and some in Maine, Pennsylvania, and New York, are testing grounds for plays slated for Broadway. The Theater Guild's new musical, "Arms and the Girl," was first tried out at the Guild's Westport Playhouse...
...Ottawa, Mrs. Lester Kipp was cooking breakfast one morning last week when something about the throb of a nearby aircraft made her look up at the sky through the kitchen window. She was just in time to see a plane explode in the air over a neighbor's barn, then crash in a great ball of orange flame in a nearby field. "Lester," cried Mrs. Kipp to her husband, "go help the people...