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...ever done much manual work before. They bought a hillside lot in suburban Tamalpais Valley and pulled on blue overalls. Working nights and weekends, they wheeled in 32 tons of gravel for the foundation, spent 13 weekends raising the framing. Eight months later, they moved into their small, modern redwood home. For their $5,000 in cash, plus their "sweat equity," the Perkinses had a house easily worth $10,000. In San Francisco's Paradise Cove, Architect Henry Schubart Jr. and his wife are doing even better, so far have finished $25,000 worth of new house...
Outward bound for India, Liz Redwood, 37, is a tense package. After a few days at sea, she confides in another woman passenger: "What would you say . . . if I told you I was a woman . . . taken in adultery." The other passenger advises Liz to forget it and enjoy the trip. But Liz can't forget, and can't forgive herself. Her husband Charles, a steady fellow who works for the State Department, had been terribly understanding about the whole thing, too. But Liz insisted on a separation, and a trip to India, to find herself...
...Sale. The man who started cataloguing this cavalcade of America was Richard Warren Sears, a tall and dark promoter who, in the words of one admiring contemporary, "could sell a breath of air." Sears was a railroad telegrapher in tiny North Redwood, Minn, in the '80s-a time when shady manufacturers unloaded their stocks by shipping them C.O.D. to unsuspecting small-town merchants, then offered them cut-rate prices "to avoid return shipping costs." When a shipment of men's "yellow watches," hunting-case type, and gold-filled (value of the gold: 27?) was refused by a local...
Undertaker Floyd soon discovered that Winchester was not impressed by a letter of authorization to move the body, from elderly Mrs. Josephine Neville Strong Callahan of Redwood City, Calif., who said that she was the old general's great-great-granddaughter. Floyd called Cowpens for reinforcements. Help arrived in the person of S. A. ("Tip") Moseley, a former mayor of Cowpens and chairman of the Cowpens Committee in Charge of Getting General Morgan's Body. With Tip Moseley was the committee's attorney, J. Manning Poliakoff...
...first call came from the town of Campbell (pop. 9,500); shortly there were calls from Los Altos (10,700), Redwood City (25,342) and Soquel (school district 4,000). MacConnell & Co. moved to each town in turn, went to work...