Word: pining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Smith Thach was born in Pine Bluff, Ark. in 1905, the third of four children. His mother was a schoolteacher and a beauty in her day ("Men still whistle at her," he says fondly, "and so help me, doctors don't believe that she's 80"); his father was an insurance executive and an enthusiastic outdoorsman. The family moved to a big ten-room house in Fordyce, 37 miles away, when John was four...
Deadline Agonizing. To keep up with the news, greying Willard Mullin works only one day ahead. Most of his quizzical heroes take shape in a knotty-pine-paneled den in his home in Plandome Manor, L.I., where Mullin spends hours poring over photos for such details as the shape of football helmets and the piping on baseball uniforms. An agonizer over ideas, he suffers most during the rowing season. "It's just too hard," he says, "to draw eight guys doing the same thing...
...Dief. From the time the President and Mrs. Eisenhower, along with Secretary of State Dulles and Mrs. Dulles, alighted from the presidential plane Columbine III, the President and the Prime Minister lost little time getting down to the serious business that prompted the visit. In the pine-paneled study of the Prime Minister's residence, Ike and Dief settled themselves in chintz-covered chairs, and for an hour and 35 minutes went over the problems of trade, tariffs and joint defense that they had agreed to discuss. Sitting in with their chiefs were Dulles and External Affairs Chief Sidney...
SILAS LEFT HAND BULL Pine Ridge...
...Pierpont Morgan the elder made the purchase of a yellow pine box in 1909. Legend had it that the box was carpentered by Henry David Thoreau in his dying year (1862). Loosely fitted in this wooden frame were 38 manuscript notebooks in which the author of Walden had kept his monumental (nearly two million words) Journal, written in the course of 24 years. The box also offered a mystery. It concerned a missing notebook dating from Thoreau's 23rd year (1840), in which the strongest love interest of the Concord bachelor's life was supposedly blighted. Discovered some...