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Last week in Millbrook (Little, Brown. $2.50) Author Lutes continued her homely reminiscences. In this volume her hardbitten, hard-eating, yo-year-old father has moved to a small 30-acre farm on the edge of a little village. It tells less about cooking, more about people, their gossip, scandals, fighting, country dances. Its highlights are Nell Peters' illegitimate baby, Cousin William's scandalizing city wife, the axe murder of Aunt Het. Like The Country Kitchen, its charm is that it dramatizes the horse-&-buggy atmosphere of an old almanac...
...also casting and stage director of several other Aldrich shows besides assisting in presenting "Twelfth Night" with Jane Cowl, and "Springtime For Henry." He has worked with summer theatres in Millbrook, N. J. and Tamworth...
Recipients of School of Education scholarships will be Henry H. Callard, of Millbrook, Evan R. Collins, of Marion, Robert H. Kroepsch, of Woburn, David E. Barker, of Bangor, Maine, Ernest B. Walston, of Boston, Ray C. Bitterlich, of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, Mary L. Hudelson, of Pomona, Kansas, and Albert G. Snow, of Blue Hill, Maine
...Foundation's philanthropic lawyer-president, both breed fine cockers on Long Island, both had entries in last week's Westminster. But the best of the show's 205 cockers, jet-black Champion Torohill Smoky, belonged to Mrs. Garvan's 15-year-old son Peter, a Millbrook School fourth-former who has devoted his vacations for three years to feeding, grooming and exercising...
Last week, Edward Ballard, retired, had a son a senior at Yale, a daughter in the Bennett finishing school (Millbrook, N. Y.), and he and his wife were enjoying their usual autumn holiday at Hot Springs, Ark. In a bedroom of the fashionable Arlington Hotel he met the one-time associate of his Florida days, Silver Bob Alexander. That afternoon the double zero of life's roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract...