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Conversion to oil burning boilers last year accounts for the feeling of optimism regarding the heating situation. More than 85 er cent of the plant's steam generating equipment now burns...
...spindly, sharp-beaked crow of a man who spends his winters near Rutherford, N.J., where he was born, Marin has always loved solitude and the sea. His letters to his friend and sponsor, the late great photographer Alfred Stieglitz, were often signed "The Ancient Marin-er." They spoke most of the weather, and mentioned fishing, berrying and hunting as often as art. One such letter, written five years ago, hints at the bigness and joy that the old man still puts in his paintings...
When Nathan threw a piece of bread And hit Abijah on the head, The wrathful freshman, in a trice, Sent back another bigger slice, Which, being buttered pretty well, Made greasy work wher'er it fell, And thus arose a fearful battle, The coffee-cups and saucers rattle, The bread-bowls fly at woeful rate, And break full many a learned pate...
...72nd birthday while honeymooning in Sea Island, Ga. To well-wishers who phoned, the hotel desk clerk said that Barkley had left a message: "Barring the untimely death of the President or a declaration of war, not to be contacted, much less disturbed." Craig Rice, 41, popular whodunit writ er (Home Sweet Homicide), was committed as a chronic alcoholic to Camarillo State Hospital in California...
...eight in his caravan of cartoon collections, Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter revives the gawking, girl-crazy old hell-raiser for a few sad appearances. He still lassoes his prey with diamond necklaces ("You certainly know my Achilles' heel, Mr. Benson"), buys yachts ("How many does it-er-sleep?"), invests in mink ("She got it by going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue playboy...