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Today Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School has 1,600 acres, a small endowment, a herd of 40 cattle, a new beef barn just completed by its students. Last week old Dr. Andy, now 75 and retired, noted with satisfaction that his little school was giving a good account of itself beyond, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. Seventy of his boys, nearly a third of all who have graduated from his junior college, went off to fight for their country. One, Marine Elza O'Neal, was captured on Wake Island ("Send more Japs"); another, Lieut. William R. Ussery, was killed...
...peasant showed Edouard a sawed-off shotgun buried in the Galle barn, and Edouard soon began to wonder whether one of the family had not committed the murder. It could not be Andre; it could not be Daughter Franchise. But what about Son Blaise who insulted Edouard at every turn? Or his Communist buddy Maurice, who worked in the Galle house and had once murdered an enemy...
Later Seabrook relapsed, turned the barn at his swagger Dutchess County home into a scientific "research" laboratory. With "research girls" for guinea pigs, Seabrook and his friends "evoked . . . 'gods' and 'devils,' " dabbled in witchcraft and clairvoyance. Once more Seabrook began to drink, was cured again by an impetuous girl who forced him to plunge his elbows into boiling water. This treatment shocked him back to reality, made him realize that "the only way to write a book is to apply the seat of the pants to the seat of a chair -and write it." Result...
...Married A Witch (United Artists) is a Sabbath brew made by mixing the somewhat corn-fed satiric fantasy of the late Thorne Smith (Topper) with the ultrasophisticated fantastic satire of Director Rene Clair (Le Million). The comedy is either barn-broad or razor-sharp and the cast who serve this cider-&-absinthe cocktail make it more than easy to take...
Last week St. Francis College made ready to move across the road into Immergrun. It will keep its old campus too. Besides the 44-room castle and hanging gardens, its fabulous new campus included a 26-room guesthouse, stone cottages, dairy barn, ghole golf course...