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...18th-Century Bergen County Dutch house in Tenafly, N.J., which he has filled to the eaves with U.S. antiques, some of them of very dubious authenticity. There, in an attic studio, surrounded by three stripling sons who alternately bawl, play the clarinet and scatter the floor with toy electric train tracks, he works methodically with a crow quill pen because it produces a large variety of thin and thick lines...
...Nothing mattered but John. . . ." / / Composer Walter Joseph Donaldson, who sang of domestic bliss in My Blue Heaven, sued Dorothy Ann Donaldson for divorce. She countered with a suit for separate maintenance of $175 a week, / / Minsky Stripper Rose La Rose sued for a divorce from J. Harrington Price, retired toy manufacturer. She told New York Sunday News reporters that after a hard day's work she had to put on an extra show at home while Price played his mouth organ. "In the theater I have my audience and am inspired," she said. "There was no inspiration performing...
...last February Pandora, now age 3, began to toy with her Pablum mash. Gradually she sickened, by last week was having convulsions. One day police sirens screamed from The Bronx to Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center ahead of a zoo station wagon. Pandora, quieted by nembutal, was lifted in a stretcher, borne into the famed Neurological Institute, whisked to the tenth-floor X-ray room...
...President James Bryant Conant a small fleet of toy destroyers, to convoy him back and forth on his scientific missions...
...important citizens in the U.S. sat on a park bench in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. Pigeons strutted along the paths, inspecting the ruins of peanuts; sweaty tourists, slung with cameras, pounded past the corroded, green bronze of Andrew Jackson on a hobbyhorse, surrounded by toy cannons...