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Restless souls forever in search of the cutting edge but never quite sure they have found it are directed to Manhattan's new Royalton Hotel, in the theater district. At least for now, the cutting edge is here. Bring Band-Aids...
...roads of an area near Cairo, Ill., known as Little Egypt. Many animals have been abandoned by their owners, often University of Southern Illinois students from Carbondale who simply turn their pets loose when the school year ends. Other pack members are house dogs allowed to go unleashed. In Royalton, Amy Imhoff, 6, was savagely bitten by a neighbor's dogs. In Macedonia, Kevin Zook, 14, was mauled to death by a local farmer's four dogs after he ran out of gas while motorcycling on a country road. Says a Royalton mother: "There are streets...
This new kind of pastorate might never have come into being if, one day in 1948, the organ in a small Minnesota country church had not broken down. Deacon Alan Humrickhouse of Royalton, Minn, (pop: 500) went looking for an electrician. He found Vernon Pick at nearby Two Rivers. Talking over the repair job at Pick's house, he was surprised to find the electrician had a library that would do justice to a college professor. Pick was equally surprised to hear the way the deacon talked electric motors (he had been installing communications equipment for the Bell Telephone...
Romance came at last to Broadway Critic George Jean Nathan, 72, iconoclastic sniper-in-arms (in the '20s) of H. L Mencken. Announced Nathan, from Manhattan's Royalton Hotel, where he has lived as a bachelor for 48 years: he would soon marry wraithlike Actress Julie Haydon, 44, with whom he has been keeping company for 17 years. Julie last appeared on Broadway nine years ago as a wispy cripple in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. "The best woman," Nathan once wrote, "is the inferior of the second-best man . . . To enjoy women at all, one must...
...little (pop. 500) Royalton, Minn., Vernon J. Pick was a successful small businessman. To expand his electric-motor-repair business, he had put in $40,000, all the money he had. Then disaster struck. His plant burned down, and it was insured for only $13,500. He collected the insurance money, sold his house and all its contents, and with his wife set off in a small truck and trailer for a Mexican vacation. Says Pick: "I figured it would be thelast one I'd have for some time...