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...home-grown brand of Kentuckian is not necessarily as lean, long and hard-driving as the University of Kentucky's Basketball Coach Adolph Rupp would like, but there are other states: each year dozens of slat-shaped aspirants from all over the U.S. trek to Rupp's office in Lexington, many of them at their own expense, to try out for Rupp's team. The 1948 crop (four Kentuckians, eight outlanders) was particularly potent; it won the national championship, and its starting five went on to the U.S. Olympic squad and later to professional careers. Last year...
Areas which had previously depended on graded inclines to attract the slat-burdened visitor have added new trails; places which required a good deal of snow to cover their trails have spent time and money grading and treating the hills to make skiing on thinly covered slopes almost a pleasure; the traditional refuge of the snow bunny has added many comfortable couches so that it is now possible to go up to the lodge, never put on a ski, and still have a good time...
...takes equal care with his pants, adjusting the elastics that hold them far down on his shins. Ted's detractors have accused him of wearing his pants long to attract attention. Actually, the purpose is to hide his slat-skinny legs. Williams' weight is in his shoulders and club-heavy forearms...
...house for the B.s had been finished and occupied by last week. Viewed from the street it lay along the hillside like an airy fort, constructed of redwood, rosy-beige stucco and plate glass. A solidly railed, angular deck jutted out at one side; a larger, unrailed deck of slat-grill redwood served as the entrance porch. The living room was an 18 by 32 ft. rectangle staggered irregularly by a guest closet, bookcases, birch-trimmed dining alcove and flagstone hearth. Along one wall were 27 ft. of plate glass windows, with sliding draperies. The opposite wall, facing out into...
...from door to door by Yankee peddlers more than 100 years ago, were back in production. In the rebuilt original plant at Riverton (formerly Hitchcocks-ville), Conn., enterprising Furniture Makers John Kenney and Richard Coombs were turning out rush-seated Hitchcock crown backs, turtle backs, button backs and plain slat backs, for sale throughout the U.S. The price...