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...leads a pampered dog's life in suburban Cos Cob, Conn. (pop. 3,100). His nonworking day's routine includes an egg at breakfast, a pound of canned beef at dinner, a romp on the acres of his master, Adman Len Carey, a vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, and a proprietary interest in sleeping on the bed of the Careys' 16-year-old son, Jeff. Every once in a while, for reasons that Storm may not fully understand, he is required to parade up & down in front of a crowd with a lot of other...
...even "the greatest living authority" wasn't enough to produce the rounded picture of Wilder that Barton needed to write his cover story. In addition to interviews with a number of the writer's other friends and early associates, Barton and Researcher Marjorie Burns spent a day with Wilder's sister Isabel at her home in New Haven...
There, in an interview punctuated by frequent trips to supervise plumbers who were installing a new dishwasher, Miss Wilder was extremely helpful in providing incidents from her brother's early life. Barton noticed that, for a writer, there were few books around the house, wondered about it aloud. Isabel explained that Wilder gave books away all the time, and that she could "barely hang on to copies of books written by members of the family"-a small library in itself, including three novels by Isabel. Giving away books seemed to be a family weakness; Researcher Burns was given...
...extract by pickax a few timid and grudging facts from a fretful hermit, and what you got was Niagara from the Ancient Mariner.' He exhorted me to become a headmaster some day - which, coming from a teacher like himself, I took to be a compliment. He remembered Barton warmly, but as far as I remember had no recommendation for his becoming a headmaster- field probably crowded." Baker's 15,000-word report provided the bulk of the additional material Barton needed to write his story - the fifth cover story he has done for TIME. The others: Hutchins, Wellesley...
...weekly newspaper column, Adman-Author Bruce Barton added another item to the long list of Calvin Coolidge stories. During a visit to the ex-President in Northampton, Mass., Barton recalled, he saw Mr. Coolidge use a telephone for the first time. To check his memory, Bar- ton asked if there had been a telephone in the White House office. Answered Coolidge: "There was one in a booth in the hall I could have used, but I never did. The President shouldn't talk on the phone. You can't be sure it's private, and telephoning...