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...Minot, N. Dak., A.F.B...
...imagination is for people. Her characters, the reader feels with approval, are thought up, not noted down. Her menagerie is too various to be a mere assemblage from the parts-bin of relatives' tics and friends' twitches. The best of her originals are members of the remarkable Minot family (Mrs. Fay Dines on Zebra), a Hudson River clan that has subsisted for 200 years on no income at all. The Minots live by dining out, and walk safely the precarious line between guesthood and sycophancy by balancing good fellowship with mordant truth telling. For an author who does...
Paries & Polar Bears. In Boston, following a time-worn custom, Herald Managing Editor George Minot dispatched a platoon of newsmen to summer resorts on Cape Cod. "We just tell the reporter to drive and look," said Minot, "and whenever he sees an old lady doing nothing-talk to her." The Omaha World-Herald began a series on the city's 74 parks that could well last out the summer. The San Francisco Chronicle trumpeted an event that knows no season: HE FOUND LOVE IN ICE CREAM PARLOR. The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman and the Topeka Daily Capital sent photographers...
...Minot W. Tripp '61, outgoing president of the HYDC, said last night that "if the members of the Committee for Progress had done something for the club during the past year, they would have no cause to complain...
...membership meeting last night, the HYDC elected Minot W. Tripp '61 of Kirkland House and Altadena, Cal., club president; Edwin Martin, Jr. '63 of Kirkland House and Washington, D.C., second vice-president; and Gary Gober '63 of Quincy House and Chattanooga, Team, member-at-large...