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...about everybody else had offered an idea for ending the civil war in Laos. Last week the most peaceable man around, King Savang Vatthana, had his try. Clad in a gold-buttoned tunic, grey pantaloons and black silk stockings, the King plucked a pink folder from atop a silver urn proffered by a kneeling courtier. In cadenced, elegant French, he read a message to "the countries of the world." Laos, he declared, was "a peaceful country, which for more than 20 years has known neither peace nor security." Savang Vatthana promised to refrain from any military alliance, to rid Laos...
This is the primitive side to 'New Coll.' But there are compensations. If the authorities do not maintain Quincy House standards of physical luxury, they do at least supply every three or four undergraduates with a 'Scout', a manservant who polishes shoes, brings shaving water by urn and does other odd jobs about the place. Then, again, the fan-vaulted basement, recently become a thriving barroom, serves as evidence that asceticism and the Good Life can be practised simultaneously. Do the authorities worry about liquor being served on the premises? Not a bit of it. For generations a variety...
...ever since childhood. After he graduated in art from the University of Illinois, he went to work making master models for machine-made furniture. Six years ago, he bought his first piece of primitive art, because he "wanted to own something old.'' The piece was a Mexican urn and cost him $100. It set him to reading about primitive art-and one of his first conclusions was that his urn was a fake...
...Marble Urn. Clint Hester had been friend and companion to his only son Bob. They often hiked and camped together in the Sierra Nevada. When young Bob decided that he wanted to learn to fly, Clint gladly encouraged him, allowed Bob to buy his own plane when he was 17. During World War II, air-struck Bob Hester inevitably joined the Air Corps. On Dec. 6, 1943, the B-24 that he was co-piloting disappeared in a raging storm over the Sierra Nevada. Search parties could find no trace of the plane or of its six-man crew...
...hope of finding his son alive faded away, Hester set up a marble urn in his backyard in Los Angeles as a memorial to Bob and his fellow crewmen. "The war will never end for us," he wrote to the parents of the lost B-24's pilot. He bought a parcel of land near Lone Pine, built a house there. "Now I won't have to go so far to look for Bob," he said...