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...always been his custom to order his post-mortem forms in batches of 500. Toward the end of 1947, he ordered only 100. When he had used most of them, he wrote to a colleague in Switzerland saying that he refused to "linger on to become a burden to others." The week before Christmas, he filled out the last of the forms and put it in the mailbox. He informed his garage staff that he would not be seeing them over the New Year, and gave them their Christmas presents. That night he was found dead in his laboratory, beside...
...Downs. When she was 14 she qualified for the 1947 Olympic tryouts at Sun Valley, and drove West with Dartmouth Dean Lloyd K. ("Pudge") Neid-linger, his daughter Sally Neidlinger (a member of this year's team) and North Conway's Paula Kann. Andy marveled at the wide-open Western slopes, a sharp contrast to New England's shut-in trail skiing. "I couldn't get over the idea I was going like crazy," she says. She did go like crazy: first place in the slalom, her favorite because "it's more of a problem...
...below, he works, usually till midnight, at the sprawling mountain of manuscripts piled on his desk. Memos have been known to molder in the pile for years, before Wallace got around to scrawling in the margin: "Sure. Go ahead. Wally." But the stuff he regards as important does not linger there long. Next morning, Wallace loads his completed work into his briefcase and careens off to the office in his battered old 1941 Chevrolet...
...margin requirement is 75% and most of the buying is for cash. The public has rushed in, but instead of chasing after low-priced and highly speculative "cats & dogs," it has usually bought "blue chips." Reason: the public is a lot smarter, partly because 1920's memories still linger but also because brokers have done a great deal to teach small investors what...
Each year some 2,000,000 visitors roam the marble vastness of Washington's National Gallery. Its 4½ acres of art treasures cover the history of Western painting from Byzantium to Bellows (George). The visitors always linger over such masterpieces as Giorgione's Adoration of the Shepherds and Raphael's Alba Madonna, but their favorite is one of the gallery's least-assuming pictures-Auguste Renoir's A Girl with a Watering...