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...days, the actor lay in state in a Manhattan funeral parlor. A crowd of fans estimated at 10,000, most of them women, waited in line to file past his oaken bier. Greying Playwright Odets, himself a repentant ex-Communist, came in, looked down, turned away to bury his face in his hands. Out in the street two men began slugging each other; one of them, someone reported, had called Garfield a Communist. But Jules Garfinkle was past caring. "He came like a meteor." said Rabbi Louis Newman at the Reformed Hebrew service, "and like a meteor he departed...
Soon, as the first robin raises Santo Domingo on the gladsome return to northern climes, the lichened Gothic structures that line the still leafless boulevards shed their study oaken shutters, much as a yearling copperhead sheds its skin...
...impressed with the six-foot fire places, bounded by great oaken pillars jutting into the room. The window shades he described as "dark red silk, hanging from solid brass, and the window seat below is of a like color in plush." Bed rooms were furnished "In the regulation style: a heavy braze bedstead, a bureau, and a dressing case with a big swinging mirror...
What the annual Boston-Syracuse football game needed for greater class, a special B.U. committee had decided, was a nice trophy-something like the Michigan-Minnesota little brown jug or the Indiana-Purdue old oaken bucket. The committee considered and discarded the notion of a totem pole or a big bass drum. Finally someone suggested an oldtime Boston bean pot. Bright B.U. Publicity-man George Wood took over from there...
...city. Then she went on to grace the opening of a show of 60 of her paintings at the Albany Institute of History and Art. Some 600 people milled through the gallery, gaping at the artist and at such old favorites among her oils as The Old Oaken Bucket, Frosty Morning and Sugaring Off. "I never realized," Grandma chirped, "that I had so many friends...