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...Chain-smoking as he explains his case in the kitchen of his modest residence, Humes's craggy face and grizzled beard call to mind the image of what a long-haired Ernest Hemingway in his later years might have looked like if he had been alive and become a flower child in the late '60's. Humes's biography reads like the resume of a dabbling jack-of-all-trades. After completing at Harvard an undergraduate education that began at MIT, Humes threw himself into literary pursuits. He co-founded the literary magazine Paris Review in 1953 and later wrote...
...courtyard will also include a brick-terraced sun-deck area for outdoor dining and a new landscape of shrubs, flower beds and triangular areas of grass. Last year the Dunster courtyard was almost totally devoid of grass until two weeks preceding commencement...
Since last April, though, he has not been back. He prefers now to work in the flower gardens around his comfortable three-bedroom home in Grosse Pointe Park, read books and play with his daughter's six-year-old son. He keeps in shape with twice-weekly games of golf and tennis. He finds himself "taking better care of the lawn, the house, the cars." He and his wife Helen, 63, make occasional treks to Colorado and Florida, but he does not share all his activities with her. Says he: "We have made an effort to have separate interests...
...moon suspended from the branches of a potted plant. His figures generally ignore the dictates of Isaac Newton. People glide, lean, float and spin like marionettes. Sometimes they are gigantic, towering ever a pink Eiffel Tower like the Harlequia-costumed "Magicien en Rose," at other times dwarfed by flower bouquets...
...scouting a 300-mile stretch of the St. John River to see if the fearsome Furbish could be found elsewhere. Now the engineers have proudly announced the discovery of no fewer than five clumps of louseworts safely beyond the proposed dam site. What is more, they claim, the exotic flower can be cultivated elsewhere. Although the Dickey-Lincoln project, first authorized by Congress in 1965, still has other hurdles to clear before construction begins, the lousewort no longer appears to be an obstacle in its path...