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Originally, the Club offered the band members sandwiches and beer in the club loft if they would play for the rest of the guests. At first the band turned down the offer. Later, however, they reconsidered and accepted. "It was too late," Dills said. "They would no longer have us, even in the loft...
...LAST HUNT, by Milton Loft (399 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.95) is the story of the age of slaughter when, in the space of 20 years, the hide hunters wiped the buffalo herds from the face of the West. From Texas to Idaho they left "nothin but bones layin white in the sun like an alkali flat . . . and the wagon wheels breakin em like sticks." Milton Lott. 35-year-old millwright who got a Houghton Mifflin fellowship for this first novel, was born and raised in the Snake River country, the scene of his story. He describes his hunters' comfortless...
...they reached the bottom, the officers looked around with the beams of their 1,000-watt searchlights. "We came down on a bed of slimy sand," said Engineer Willm. "We started the motors and cruised a bit, but the water quickly became troubled. At one point we sighted a loft. sharklike creature. During most of our descent we were surrounded by myriads of luminous points, and we distinguished some weird polyps with translucent tentacles...
From a bare Manhattan loft last spring, a young magazine writer and his friends, working nights, sent out the first copies of a new religious magazine to 8,000 venturesome subscribers. Ambitiously, they billed it as "the first national picture magazine for a Catholic audience." This week Editor Edward Rice, 35, and a full-time staff, busy setting up copy for next month's issue, had reason to feel their optimism justified. With a press run of 38,000 and a steady stream of subscriptions, the magazine was on course. Its name: Jubilee, from the Latin of the Psalm...
Face-Saver. In St. Jean La Joterie, France, missing for almost a month, Farmer François Marchand turned up well and cheerful at his home, told distressed relatives that he had been in the loft of his barn all the time: "I wanted to grow a beard in private...