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...about in search of a style they can call their own, Stallknecht has found hers. And she has done it without stumbling or even seeming to breathe hard. She studied illustration as a girl, before the beginning of the century, paused to raise a family and to farm at Chatham on Cape Cod, and then, past 50, felt compelled to paint some more. Meanwhile, her son Frederick Wight (Stallknecht is her maiden name) had become a proficient painter and art critic (TIME, Sept. 3, 1956). Young Wight encouraged her to paint, yet was amazed when she embarked on a masterly...
...twelve years she completed 58 panels, crowded with 158 clearly recognizable residents of the Chatham vicinity. "I needed each one to pose for an hour," she says. "I paint very quickly. I would do the face and hands and let them go. They were all very willing and helpful, and many told their life stories while they were posing. I always offered them a modeling fee of a dollar, but not many took...
Memorial Hall loomed large before 900 hesitant and expectant freshmen on the morning of September 21, 1928, as they filed before "the huge Gothic pile" to register as members of the Class of 1932. The eyes of Burke and Chatham looked severely down upon them, the jealous gargoyles stared angrily at the Yard behind them, and the clangor of the bell seemed to make time itself revert to the 19th century as they enrolled...
...time these freshmen graduated, the eyes of Chatham and Burke guarded little more than a storeroom for University files, the gargoyles gazed upon a College that was almost unrecognizable as the Harvard of 1932, and the bell, tolling too slowly to keep up with the changes that had been made, had been stolen in disgust...
Omnibust. In Chatham, England, concluding that he was not getting enough attention after his girl friend broke a date, Bus Driver John Hamilton attempted to smash his bus against her house, bogged down on the lawn, grumbled as he was led off to serve six months in jail: "If only I'd had a good run, I would have got through...