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...master and his wife, sealed into lead coffins, were lowered into the earth. Food and drink were put into the grave as provisions for the journey to the isles of the dead. Two knives and two spoons were placed neatly beside the coffins. "It looked like a picnic basket." said Meates. "laid out for these two individuals...
Stranger in the Night. Home from a family picnic one day last week, the Nimers turned in early. Waking in the night, Melvin Jr. rubbed open his eyes, saw standing over his bed a strange man in overalls and white mask. The boy screamed for his mother; Loujean dashed in from the next bedroom. The stranger wheeled, flicked a knife; Loujean staggered to her bed with wounds in breast and abdomen. Slight (5 ft. 7 in.), Dr. Nimer leaped at the assailant, wrestled the man down the stairs, into the kitchen. Beside a telephone the doctor collapsed with chest...
...sons John Fell, 22, and Borden, 26, Law Partner William M. Blair, and Russian Specialist Robert Tucker, he found official smiles and small but friendly crowds in big cities, rural hamlets, Siberian industrial towns rarely seen by Westerners. Among the trip's happiest chapters: a lavish official picnic in a forest near Sverdlovsk, within sight of a boundary marker inscribed "Europe" on one side and "Asia" on the other; a leisurely trip up the Volga in a side-wheel steamer left over from Czarist days. "Everywhere I went," said Stevenson politely at a farewell reception in Moscow...
...greatest lost paintings of modern art. Gigantic in scale, the canvas measured 15 ft. by 19 ft., was referred to by one friend as "this huge sandwich which costs the earth." In it, Monet set out to prove how the sunlight actually filters through the trees, how a real picnic looks in the forest, how color glows in the shade. It was never shown. Monet had to leave it with the innkeeper as guaranty against his unpaid bill. He recovered it, found it largely ruined by cellar dampness, and cut it into strips...
...series of panels on education and a class picture at 11:30 a.m. take up Wednesday morning, with the Harvard-Yale baseball game in the afternoon and a dinner dance in the evening. Thursday features an alumni parade, Commencement exercises, a boat trip, picnic lunch, and farewell...