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...learn to adjust to the rigors of the North. They fly the family laundry outdoors all winter, taking care not to break the arms and legs off the frozen long underwear. During the long winter nights, families get together like people anywhere to play bridge, drink beer, listen to hi-fi records and talk about the "outside." At Inuvik, Shirley Semmler, daughter of a storekeeper, water skis on the icy Mackenzie River...
...Delattre poked around North Beach-an Italian neighborhood with a heavy lacing of art galleries, sandal shoppes and beatnickery-and found a 30-by-40-ft. store at Greenwich Street and Grant Avenue. He moved his wife and two children into a flat upstairs, furnished the store with a hi-fi set, a coffee urn and 2,000 books of his own, and opened up a year...
...State, the gaunt, tired man in the presidential suite at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital struggled to hold his own. John Foster Dulles read fitfully at his books-Agatha Christie and Erie Stanley Gardner, Churchill's memoirs, tire Bible. He listened to Bach on a stereophonic hi-fi that he had donated to the hospital last December. Sometimes he tried a crossword puzzle, listened to the news on TV. chatted about events with such faithful visitors as President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian Herter, played, backgammon with his wife Janet. But as his dosage of painkilling...
James Thurber's pipe-dreaming hero never imagined himself conducting a symphony orchestra, but thousands of his spiritual prototypes have. To accommodate them, RCA Victor last week issued a package that encourages the hi-fi fan to do his armchair conducting openly and with proper equipment, rather than furtively with a pencil. The package: Music for Frustrated Conductors, complete with instructions manual and a 16¾-in. baton...
Fair Fare? Chalk pocketed enough in these deals to live in splendor. His twelve-room Fifth Avenue apartment is rich with a Rouault, a Dufy, two Renoirs, two Vlamincks; his Washington office is studded with hi-fi and Queen Anne furniture. Chalk commutes between the two places in his telephone-equipped cars (black Cadillac, white Continental), on off hours retires to his 83-ft., twin-diesel yacht. A careful dresser, he owns 70 suits (most made in Europe for upwards of $200 each) and 30 pairs of shoes (most made in Paris for $75 a pair), sports vests with lapels...