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Grandma's studio is her bedroom. It has a wood stove for winter weather. "I look out the window sometimes," she says, "to see the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene." She never paints from nature "because it's easier...
...Host. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Anna Hagopian sued her landlord for $22,000 because, she complained, he had 1) torn down the kitchen sink, 2) removed her stove, 3) turned off the gas, 4) padlocked her bathroom...
Frank's father picked him up and they headed home. Though the dory was stove in, they managed to tow it for evidence. They also brought a piece of soft skin as thick as suit cloth-whale hide, both said. Listening, Provincetown was puzzled, as to whether it should applaud Frank Jr. for riding the whale, or for being the biggest liar in the world. It was an awful situation -and unless somebody checked Willie's hide to see if a portion was missing, Provincetown would never know...
...Stove-Struck. Mrs. Lucas, who once ran a restaurant in London, arrived in the U.S. in 1942, with two trunks of pots & pans and no money. With borrowed funds and a $40 stove which she "found in a junk heap,"she started the Cordon Bleu. Several thousand students (including such stove-struck celebrities as Harold Lloyd, Joan Fontaine and Nicholas Roosevelt, and many a society girl about to marry) have gone to school in her kitchen. Mrs. Lucas does all the marketing, cooking, teaching and telecasting herself, and writes cookbooks in her spare time (last week she was working...
Last winter, when there was no fishing, Annie cut 20 cords of pulpwood for sale and a couple of cords for the home stove. Said she last week: "I make enough out of fishing and pulpwood to live on. There isn't much left over. I love the sea and I love the land. I think maybe I would like other things better but this is my bread & butter." Then she added with pride: "The men down here who go fishing all think I'm wonderful...