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...sitting here at my desk . . . [when] I happened to glance at your hypnotic "The Finest Time of the Year" [TIME, Oct. 11]. I got as far as "First graders brought home cutout paper pumpkins," and fled from the factory for a personal survey of Dubuque County under "October's bright blue sky" . . . I found everything in this part of the Upper Mississippi Valley as advertised in your excellent paper. The sumac along the river bluffs is in excellent shape, "the greatest corn crop in history" awaits picking, down in Nine Mile Island slough the advance guard of "honkers...
Hexed Barns. The college year had begun (with fewer veterans on the campus); the World Series was on. Department stores showed the new fall styles (cloche hats, swathed hips, and shoes in the style of Louis XV). First graders brought home cutout paper pumpkins...
...falling, cutout black figure of Icarus looks as if it might have been snipped out by a child, until the onlooker comes to sense the impotent hooked flapping of the unwinged arms. The lumpish, drooping legs bewail their mid-air uselessness; the head hangs horrified over the void. By its very color, the body mourns its own impending death, which the red beating heart denies...
...caretaker, John J. Hickey, told police yesterday morning that the house had been entered through a rear first floor window the night before. Dunning, who was spending a vacation at Cutout, was summoned back to Boston to determine if anything was stolen...
...Wynn hairdo and his Europa Dollar. The Incredible, who flourished in the '303, had a theory: Europe could cure its ills in a jiffy by adopting his "international currency based on hours of labor." He burned up the Continent's roads on a motorcycle with wide-open cutout trying to peddle his Europas; sometimes he passed them to pay hotel bills...