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There have been games of dominoes going on in the courthouse at Eufaw as long as the citizens of Greene County, Ala., can remember, marathon games played by old men in bib overalls and soiled fedoras. "I heard they been playing since the Civil War," said one of the game's regulars. The gossip and the political affairs of the county moved across the table with the domino tiles, yellowed now, like the players' hands, by age and use. But the courthouse game ended last week and with it an era. A new black sheriff and judge were...
...mere four pounds. This year's collection moves Madame Potok to grandiloquence. "For the girl who forgot her gloves," she has a broadtail coat whose sleeves drip ermine over naked hands ($7,800); "for unheated castles," there is a black mink, floor-length caftan with a gold-beaded bib front ($5,900); "for a five-finger exercise," a calfskin coat, dyed an unpretentious wine and appliquéd with black antelope in the shape of fingers...
...through Duck Hollow. Eb ? his real name is Elbert, but one doesn't call a mountain man that ? is 56, and he went blind seven years ago. (Degenerative blindness afflicts many Appalachian dwellers as a result of in breeding.) Lank and long-striding in his pale blue bib overalls, his sightless eyes gleaming under a faded brown fedora, Eb stalks his 52 hillside acres mending fences with the assurance of a man born to the slope. His four-room tar-papered house perches on a 45-degree cant with the same defiant certitude. With his wife Louise (pronounced...
...Harvard and Wellesley, to heed the call to conscience which has generated these protests. Sigmund Abeles, Art Leon Apt, History Duncan Aswell, Eng. Grazia Avitabile, Ital. Mariam Berlin, His. Sharon Cadman, Eng. Elizabeth Conant, Bio. Ann Congleton, Phil. Helen Corsa, Eng. John Crawford, Music Ward Cromer, Psych. Fred Denbeaux, Bib. His. Jacqueline Evans, Math. David Ferry, Eng. John Graham, Math Laurel Furumoto, Psy. Rene Galand, French Edward Gulick, His. Jean Harrison, Bio. Walter Houghton, Eng. Gabriele Jackson, Eng. Owen Jander, Music Florence McCulloch, French Eleanor McLaughlin, His. Jeanette McPherrin, French Joan Melvin, Bio. Genworth Mofett, Art Torsten Norvig, Math Barry...
...Californian style: exuberant use of chiffon, bold sun colors such as orange and yellow, the revival of striking art nouveau prints. His magnificent "at home" wear this season includes $1,055 bead-encrusted beige-and-ginger-striped pajamas and a $1,700 gold-metallic chiffon burnoose with a jeweled bib...