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...later, he gave it up to become a full-time union organizer. On his rounds, he met a Queens teacher named Edith Gerber, whom he made a strike captain and later married ("I organized her," he says). They have three children, aged 10 to 13, and live in a split-level house in suburban Putnam County...
...nostrils and traveled down her gut until she was infused with gritty candor. "I guess I come off looking like a lightweight," said Model Margaux Hemingway, 19, implausibly, and turned to display a 6-ft. frame. Four months ago, Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter left the family's split-level in Ketchurn, Idaho. One night when she was feeling good and funny and true, she revealed that she had been conceived after her parents had put away a bottle of Chateau Margaux, the kind of wine that has rested in cool cellars and must be drunk with reverence. "Tons...
Higher Powers. Tom, who lives five miles away, values privacy more; he grows marijuana plants. At 27, Tom is a long-haired business dropout who made a bundle running charter flights, selling dune buggies and speculating in the stock market. Now he meditates in his tiny split-level, made of vertical redwood planks. "I wanted to release some of the higher powers of the mind," he says. His home, which cost $2,000 in materials and furnishings, blends with the green leaves and gray trunks of the surrounding pine and oak trees...
Between bookings he lives with his wife Annie in a $150,000, split-level three-bedroom house on a wooded slope near Aspen. Folks coming to call on Denver sometimes have to track him down on nearby ski trails or golf courses or, at the very least, up on the roof in a glass-enclosed loft where he likes to watch eagles through a telescope. "There is no artifice to John," says Folk Singer Tom Paxton. "John is a Druid, a tree worshiper, an elf, a sprite." Just the man, perhaps, to take the curse off music that makes people...
...place is the Livermore Amador Valley of California, a community of split-level haciendas 40 freeway minutes from San Francisco. It is suburbia, the material goal men seem to have been inching toward ever since Neanderthal times. For Americans it is the last flush card of the New Deal. "We're really happy. Our kids are healthy, we eat good food and we have a really nice home," say Mom and Dad. The statement is as matter-of-fact as a fried...