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...white days, that time would take me Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand, In the moon that is always rising, Nor that riding to sleep I should hear him fly with the high fields And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land. Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like...
...front seat on the revolution." But he felt cheated: "The revolution came but nobody noticed." He lives there now with his wife, Helen, who says she has to run the Hoover over him every morning" to clean off his cigarette ashes. Married for 49 years, the Swaffers are childless...
Died. Nila Mack, 62, for 23 years writer-producer-director of the Peabody Award-winning children's program Lets Pretend (CBS's oldest continuous dramatic show); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Blonde, childless Widow Mack's Saturday fairy-tale program espoused courtesy and kindness, has long been something of an anachronism on air waves full of G-men, spacemen and cowboy mayhem, yet continues to draw 500-odd letters a week...
...Soon afterward, Pauline had gone to a permanent bed in the hospital. Adrien himself had become too weak to do even the odd jobs that were left to him. The presents he brought his wife on his regular trips to the hospital often meant going without meals himself. Yet, childless for 43 years of marriage, they both loved children, and their greatest happiness came each year at Christmas time when Adrien was asked to don his red suit and play Santa at the store and at private parties and small, out-of-the-way shops...
...thus automatically became one of the East's most important secondary schoolmen, for Loomis occupies a secure place among the nation's top dozen prep schools. It began in 1912, with $2,170,000 left by five childless members of a wealthy Windsor family named Loomis, who wanted to found a place for students of all races and religions-"that some good may come to posterity from the harvest, poor though it may be, of our lives." Under the first headmaster, Nathaniel Batchelder, the good came quickly. He boosted enrollments from 67 to 320, built...