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...Quiet Life. Gene and his wife, a tiny, dark-haired, brown-eyed girl, opened a little restaurant in Glendale, Calif., prospered moderately, and settled down to savor the quiet life and raise a family. They had two children, Greg, now 3, Robin, now 6. "Townsend," said his pastor, "was one of those sturdy, quietly happy men whom children instinctively love. When he came into the church with them on Sunday morning, it always made me feel good-any pastor with one family like that in his congregation has every reason to be happy...
...been on the air regularly for nearly five years with the same sponsor (General Foods), the same basic cast, the same editor, Frank Gabrielson, and the same producer, Carol Irwin. Veteran actors Peggy Wood and Judson Laire are still playing a lovable pair of Norwegian immigrants in San Francisco; Robin Morgan, Dick Van Patten and Rosemary Rice are still their Americanized children. Everyone has just gotten a little older...
...turn of the United Nations to do the explaining. In four days last week, 130 South Korean prisoners marched dutifully into the explanation tents at Panmunjom. Their Chinese P.W. uniforms.betrayed their long years of captivity; they were faded by constant washing to a light robin's egg blue. Their minds, too, had been effectively laundered. All 130 refused to go back to South Korea, including four girl P.W.s in silk jackets and flowing skirts, who did folk dances as they waited their turn in the cold...
...Touch of Robin Hood. In the meantime, the success of his first book of poems salved his ego without going to his head: "When I read [Virgil's] Georgics, and then survey my own powers, 'tis like the idea of a Shetland Pony, drawn up by the side of a thoroughbred Hunter." He attracted patrons but he rarely kowtowed to them, feeling that it was a common hypocrisy with poets, "when their Patrons try their hand at a Rhyme, to cry up the Honorable or Right Honorable performance as Matchless, Divine...
...husband and father. He put his royalties into a farm, but he could not put his back and heart into it. With an eye on his hungry family and an ear to the creditor's knock, he took the odiously regarded job of exciseman, but gave it a Robin Hood touch: "I recorded every Defaulter, but at the Court, I myself begged off every poor body that was unable to pay, which seeming candour gave me so much implicit credit with the Hon. Bench that . . . they gave me ample vengeance on the rest...