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...People in central Texas are used to spring tempests, when cold fronts from the north clash with warm, wet Gulf weather. They know enough to find a ditch to lie in, or a sturdy, windowless room in the center of the house, preferably under a mattress or in a bathtub. And the citizens of Jarrell, a small town 42 miles up the interstate from Austin, did have time to take precautions. Meteorologists, concerned with the unseasonably high dew points (it has been a bumper wild-flower season) were broadcasting warnings. Tornado sirens went off at 3:55 p.m., 10 minutes...
MARRIED. MATTHEW BRODERICK, 34, winsomely boyish actor, and current Broadway princess (in Once Upon a Mattress) SARAH JESSICA PARKER, 32; secretly, at a New York City synagogue...
...when I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we assumed that "no frills" was the part of college education that toughened you up for the future. A hard mattress, no pillow, a 40-watt bulb, concrete floors, a muddy campus, hobnail boots and highly committed but probably underpaid teachers all contributed to making tuition $180, half a room $29 and meals at Swain Hall $126 for the year. That was the normal road to Phi Beta Kappa. EDWARD RONDTHALER Croton-on-Hudson, New York...
Early yesterday morning, as blossoming crocuses and daffodils were being covered with a mattress of spring snow, the stalwarts of Harvard Square's late night culture were running at full bore...
...short trip to the Lincoln Bedroom. The funny thing, of course, is that Lincoln never slept there. That room served as his study. And because of a renovation ordered by Harry Truman that demolished the interior of the White House, even the walls are 20th century. The mattress is no treat; the furniture is lugubrious Victorian; and for good measure the place is supposed to be haunted. Winston Churchill is said to have sighted Lincoln's ghost. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands reported an ectoplasm in a stovepipe hat. Bill Clinton thought he saw some easy dollars. He must have...