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Loading Up. If he is wise, the camper with a new tent will set it up first in his own backyard, cook a little something on his stove, light his lantern and pump up his air mattress. "Everyone should do his staff work before he starts out," says Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Lemuel Garrison. "Too many people think they have inherited Daniel Boone's knowledge as well as his spirit. They haven...
...Declaration of Independence? His losses at backgammon, cards and lotto. Who caused the Great Chicago Fire? Not Mrs. O'Leary's cow but Mrs. O'Leary's crap-shooting son, who was rolling the bones in the barn when an opponent rolled over a lantern...
...After his Philadelphia Warriors lost three straight games to Syracuse early in the N.B.A. playoffs, lantern-jawed Neil Johnston quit as coach, convinced he could never handle Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who runs a one-man show on court...
...generations in the Kentucky hill country his family had been farmers, moonshiners, preachers and feudists. His father was an impoverished and illiterate coal miner. But young, log cabin-born Jesse Stuart, who often went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Robert Burns, was determined to go to college (Said a neighbor: "He's a plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages...
...with the group until it collapsed some months later in Butte, Mont. He had 26?. Hopping a freight, he took a gelid ride to the Pacific Northwest, piled logs, sold neckties, became a telephone repairman. One of the last phones he fixed was at the theater of the Red Lantern Players, where Josephine Dillon, then in her late thirties,, was the resident stage director. She taught him diction, projection and carriage, and married him when...