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...last week, long before anyone ate a turkey, a giant spruce tree from New Jersey was raised over the Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink. The Christmas season was already under way. In the Northern California lumber town of Burney, Don Whitman, 67, closed down his barbershop and his wife Edna locked her antique shop, and the two of them renewed a family tradition: cutting Christmas trees. "It's a happiness business," says Mrs. Whitman. "I imagine all the excitement and joy connected with every Christmas tree I cut." By the time they are through, they will have...
...alone, but apparently susceptible to outside influences." To his friends he was something of a dandy. He loved English suits and was equally adept at wheedling credit out of landladies and getting bright young girls to help him with his writing; eventually he married a 32-year-old Englishwoman, Edna Clarke. In 1935 he played a bit part in an Alexander Korda film, Sanders of the River, with his friend Paul Robeson. He was so deeply affected by the Italian invasion of Ethiopia that he broke through a police line to embrace Haile Selassie when the exiled Emperor arrived...
...film was made as a vehicle for Edna Purviance, the female lead in 35 early Chaplin comedies and, it seems, the first great love of his life. It beautifully suits her talent, for she makes the transformation from the naive country girl to the worldly courtesan (and back again) with ease. Better still, the woman she becomes has a way of flashing glimpses of the girl she once was that is very touching, mostly because it is so effortless and unselfconscious...
Movie and TV stars, including Barbra, Raquel, Zsa Zsa and Cher, trek regularly to Rodeo Drive; but most customers are not well known, just rich. On a recent afternoon, Edna Weiss, a restaurant supplier's wife, drove up in her birthday present, a 1978 black Rolls-Royce, to do some shopping. Her schedule: a fitting at Gucci, up the block to Courrèges to catch the sale, then perhaps to Knights for a gift. Says Weiss: "I'm very chauvinistic about Rodeo. I've been to all the major shopping centers in the world, and there's nothing that...
Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...