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SoHo chic has come to Winter River. Charles and Delia Deetz are hosts of their premiere dinner party in the charming old Connecticut house they have just bought. The Deetzes' teenage daughter Lydia, who dresses like Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family, sulks in the corner. The conversation fizzes, then fizzles; the guests shift uneasily. Time for a little . . . Day-o! Day-ay-ay- o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! What? Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink...
Stubbs, who is staking his candidacy for a doctorate on 350 years' worth of academic garbage, joined Williams, Ian W. Brown '73, and James Deetz '57 yesterday in a layman's presentation entitled, "Historical Archaeology at Harvard...
...Farmer Deetz and his customers started an "Elmer Deetz Jug Club," printed up membership cards calling the milk law "udderly useless," started circulating petitions for the law's repeal. Deetz tools out a $4,000 mortgage on his small farm, got another $1,000 from customers, used it for petitions, pamphlets and radio time...
Soon Jug Clubs mushroomed all over Oregon with the slogan: "Short Cut to the Consumer . . . From Teats to Deetz to You." Oregon's big producers, who benefited from the law, started their own $100,000 campaign against repeal...
Last week Farmer Deetz, who also got himself elected to the State Legislature so he could help write a fairer milk law, was back on his farm wondering how to pay off his $4,000 mortgage. Said he: "I'm 60, and a man my age has got no business mortgaging the farm. But then I got no business going out of business either. All I want to do is make a living . . . and get my boy through school...