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Members are entitled to the use of the room and its sun porch. And then, of course, each senior sculler's name is added to the list of Thirty-Minute club members on the club board, designed by Joseph Eldredge, an ex-sculler...
...estate agent in the small town of Bazainville near Paris, seeking, he explained, a house and grounds suitable for his aged parents. Something nice and quiet, said the young man, adding: "Price means nothing to me." Impressed, the agent showed M. Riviere a large house, somewhat run-down -its porch sagged and its roof leaked-but basically sound and set in seven fine acres of vineyard and orchard. A working-class family named Dupuis with five children lived there rent-free...
...sunny days, supported by his black cane ("I scarcely ever use my cane in going about my room," says one note. "Often when I go out, I have to look about for it to find it"), he would struggle out of the house to sit for hours on his porch, poring over his work. Though weak and fatigued ("I have not slept 30 consecutive minutes since this time yesterday"), he refused to give up. "I worked a good four hours today," he scribbled on July 1, "and wrote a short chapter for my book." A few days later he added...
...Away. In York, Me., Mrs. Sally Cook reached into a box on the back porch for a stone to throw at a bothersome cat, scooped up, instead, jewels that had disappeared three years before...
...small, pleasant shack squeezed between the Pacific Coast Highway and the rocky shore two miles north of Monica. He swims, water-skis, sails, chases fish underwater with a spear, dives for spiny lobsters in the kelp beds, pries abalones off rocks. In quiet moments he sits on his porch, a high dive from the water, and feeds bagels to sea gulls. It is a pleasant life for a relaxing warrior, but always some odd airplane is waiting behind the mountains...