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THERE is a place in John McPhee's new collection of magazine articles, Pieces of the Frame, where two photographers from New York City go up in the country to cut some firewood. They stop on the way to rent a chainsaw at a place called Paden Rental and, they being artists from New York City, it takes the store's owner a while to get his bearings. "Paden, if that was his name," McPhee writes, "looked from one customer to another with an expression that seemed to suggest that this energy crisis had started some extremely novel trends...
ROBERT C. PADEN Wichita, Kans...
Honorable Mention John Paden...
...Franklin Institute, Boston. Eugene E. Grollmes, S.J., of Boston, was awarded the third place prize of $5, and Susan B. Schwarts '63, of West Hartford, Connecticut and Bertram Hall received an additional fourth place prize, also of $5. A citation of honorable mention went to John N. Paden 2G, of Pasadena, California...
...roared the police, down came the sign. Paden started tacking it up again. Back came the police, down came the sign. Paden's brother Gerald had locked himself in a car to take pictures of the incident, but the police broke into the car and took him off to jail. They also arrested Signora Disma Pollipoli, wife of an Italian Church of Christ preacher. At week's end, Missionary Paden nailed his sign outside an upstairs window and locked the front door. Said he: "The police came, and they put up their ladders, but they couldn...