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Like old horses trotting for the barn, the two houses held their final sessions last week, adjourned and went home. Almost one third of the Senate and almost all the House members had work to do: they had to try to be reelected...
...valley below Tanglewood's Victorian-gabled main house, Guernsey cows grazed amiably around the dairy barn. In the barn stalls a pianist raced through the Bach-Busoni Toccata in C Major; in the hayloft upstairs a madrigal group worked over Purcells 17th-Century masque opera, King Arthur. Somewhere in a clump of birch a lone flutist piped the theme of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Down by the shores of inky Lake Mahkeenac, a brass section blared Moussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain, and inside the lakeside clubhouse 23-year-old Composer Lukas Foss, a Koussevitzky...
...m.p.h.) the Andersons went round & round the 80-acre field, cutting the golden stalks to beige stubble. Once an hour they stopped and Harold Robb came alongside with the truck. Into it spilled about 70 bushels of grain from each machine. Harold Robb drove the truck back to the barn. There Frank Anderson had built a private elevator (capacity 12,000 bushels), with cemented interior and motored conveyor...
...County these days at about 7 o'clock, but there is light enough for another hour of work. By 8 o'clock, after the tarpaulins had been thrown over the engines, Frank Anderson and his helpers were too tired to talk about being tired. Back at the barn, Frank milked again, while Jack fed the horse and slopped the pigs. Then the men fell to Zula's thick round steak, fried potatoes, tomatoes, lemon-meringue...
Dorothea Natwick in 1923 plays tennis and flirts with a young libertine, falls in love with a stalwart Progressive from Idaho, and decides to marry the scholarly son of a proud Boston family. The Natwicks, far advanced in airy snobbery, give their clever daughter away at a barn party. Seventeen years later Dorothea's beauty is at its height; she presides over half the gracious living in Cambridge and, at its heart, entertains The Little Group of faculty intellectuals...