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...half fairyland and half Punch cartoon. Puckish faces were everywhere, and they bore a remarkable resemblance to the artist-bright-eyed, point-nosed, with an expression of gaiety rampant. The show included chummy centaurs bearing candles, chubby wood nymphs lurking in the shrubbery, birds that never were, sinuous but homey maidens, and friendly eggheads sprouting flowers. One Stolen Nymph, her navel flower-decked, sat sidesaddle aboard a centaur, who was chiefly interested in some birds. She looked piqued...
...suburb, Evanston (pop. 73,641), where comfortable houses sit well back from the elm-shaded streets and unfenced lawns flow comfortably together like the town's friendly citizens. Evanston has the Garrett Bible Institute, Northwestern University, the new headquarters of Rotary International and teetotal Prohibition. Last week homey Evanston was doing its best to make a home for Christianity...
...annual per capita consumption of 22½ gallons of "strong waters," one-third whisky, made it a newspaperman's paradise. The Enterprise's first big story was the war between Nevada's settlers and the Piute Indians. Coverage of shootings, stabbings and embezzlements were always homey. Sample news story...
...fire. In time everybody is after him, but the one to catch him first is Nalinle (Jean Peters), whose object is squawhood. Together they build a little mountain hideout and plant some corn. When Army scouts find them, Massai, Nalinle and their brand-new papoose prove too homey a family to break up, so Massai goes free. How the scouts straighten out this arbitrary law enforcement with headquarters will have to wait for the sequel, to be titled, no doubt, Son of Apache...
...Washington College of Education in Ellensburg, Wash. A shy, quiet woman, Miss Shockley started her career in a country school at $50 a month. She toted ten gallons of water to school each day, made new, child-sized furniture, decorated the windows with bright cretonne to make school look "homey." Since then, she has spent her life arranging parties for her little charges, leading them through song and play until they are ready for books. Dedicated to the proposition that adjustment is as important as subject matter and that a child should not be forced to study until...