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...upper Connectient Valley into the sleepy little town of Amherst, Massachusetts, one is immediately impressed that here is a New England Village still in the original. Shade trees dot its broad, green common stretching away to the right and the left. Clustered among the trees on a knoll sit a group of New England type brick buildings dominated by a white-spired chapel...
Somewhere between a handful of stores at the far end of the common and the buildings on the knoll the town of Amherst ceases and the college, one of the top educational institutions in New England, begins. Beneath this quiet exterior lies the social and academic activity of a vigorous but somewhat conformist college community...
...Gallows Knoll." When Curtin turned on the music last week, Marlowe acted fast, sued for an injunction. Curtin expressed astonishment. The gibbets, he explained, were just part of the decor: he planned to name his place "Gallows Knoll." And he had meant no offense when he turned on the music. He just liked to hear hillbilly music, and turned the radio up so that he could listen as he worked in his yard. Besides, he was not happy to hear the recorded hymns that waft from the cemetery's public-address system every Sunday. "It boils down to this...
Artist Baker now lives "in a white house on a green knoll in a beautiful valley" in Hendersonville. N.C.. where, he says, "I work every day in the week and never, never have a day off. I'm in a gorgeous rut." It takes Baker two weeks to complete a TIME cover. He commutes to New York every other Wednesday to deliver a portrait and pick up his next assignment. During the work on a cover, he walks a mile before breakfast and does elaborate calisthenics to combat easel fatigue. The one exercise he hates is mowing...
...sight of his destiny in adolescent flashes of intuition. Standing in a tent show before a penny-dreadful melodrama, he feels the actor's hypnotic hold on the crowd, senses that his words too may one day sway and spellbind. Standing, on another day, atop a rain-drenched knoll with his Adventist father and nine of the faithful awaiting the second coming of Christ, he feels his faith oozing away. He turns to the prophets of social revolution, soaks up the teachings of Proudhon, Marx and Bakunin. and becomes a labor organizer. But a violent and bitter strike convinces...