Word: larchmont
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...snowshoes went for $11, the lacrosse equipment for $3, the Jackson Pollock for $12,000, and the Franz Kline for $5,000. In all, it was a fairly good auction out at the Slezak place in Larchmont, N.Y., until the men who arranged to buy the Pollock and the Kline discovered that the paintings would have made better snowshoes. Last week a federal grand jury indicted Connecticut Art Dealer Richard A. Rainsford and a Chicago accomplice on 26 charges of fraud for inventing elaborate pedigrees for the forged paintings, then sneaking them in to be sold with some of Walter...
...horse-drawn carts began to ladle out vanilla at 15? a pailful, the traveling ice cream man has been an American folk hero. To the young, he has become better known than the fire chief, more welcome than the mailman, more respected than the corner cop. Once, when a Larchmont, N.Y., Good Humor man switched routes, 500 neighborhood tots signed a petition for his return...
Until Phyllis McGinley, no poet had ever successfully domesticated the muse, or, for that matter, had even tried to. Her singular achievement is that she has brought off the match without undue strain on either partner. The Hayden household in Larchmont rang to the rhythms of recited poetry. "We used to sit around the fire while she read it to us," Daughter Julie recalls. "It was mostly ballads-and Yeats and Chesterton too. She chose dramatic stuff because she believes that poetry should appeal to the emotions. Mother and Patsy would always cry at the sad parts...
Good Structure. Certainly no one role, not even suburban domesticity, is big enough to confine Phyllis McGinley's awesome capacity for self-expression. "She has a good ego structure," says Nina Jones, a friend from the Larchmont days (and now Happy Rockefeller's press secretary). "Phyllis is good and she knows...
...befits the head of a company that makes 300 products, Cook thrives on variety, every day drives a different route from his Larchmont, N.Y., home to his office in nearby White Plains to enjoy the scenery. Tex and Wife Frances still have roots in Texas, make a yearly trip back to their home town of Loneview...