Word: clapboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clapboard cottage nine miles southeast of Ottawa, Mrs. Lester Kipp was cooking breakfast one morning last week when something about the throb of a nearby aircraft made her look up at the sky through the kitchen window. She was just in time to see a plane explode in the air over a neighbor's barn, then crash in a great ball of orange flame in a nearby field. "Lester," cried Mrs. Kipp to her husband, "go help the people...
...soft-accented young physician with a pretty blonde wife and a two-year-old daughter moved last week into a rambling white clapboard house in Fabius, N.Y. Before his office was finished, a blizzard swirling outside brought him his first emergency case: a townswoman who had fallen on ice. For both Dr. Joseph Brudny, 33, and the twin villages of Fabius and Pompey (combined pop.: about 3,000), the beginning of his practice was the fulfillment of a dream...
Just off the main street of Rutherford, NJ. (pop. 16,000) stands the clapboard home and office of Dr. William Carlos Williams, M.D., 66, the best-known pediatrician in town. Doctoring is a busy life, but it is not enough for Williams: for over 40 years, on prescription blanks, old envelopes and other odd scraps of paper, he has been jotting down his impressions. A lot of the jottings turned out to be poetry...