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...Blue Suitcase. In 1953, at a party in Manchester, Vt., Salinger met Claire Douglas, an English-born Radcliffe student. She was unimpeachably rightlooking, extraordinarily pretty, not too categorically cashmere sweater and flannel skirt. Claire was fascinated by the intense, 34-year-old author, and visited him several times in Cornish. She soothed her family with a story that showed close attention to the master's style: Salinger lived, she said, with his mother, sister, 15 Buddhist monks, and a yogi who stood on his head. The girl discovered mysticism. "She was hung on the Jesus Prayer." recalls her brother Gavin...
...Cornish, N.H., and no plumbing or furnace in the gambrel-roofed cottage Salinger bought on a 90-acre hillside tract overlooking the Connecticut River. That winter he happily carried water from his stream and cut wood with a chain saw. For company he hiked across the river to Windsor, Vt., and passed the time with teen-agers in a juke joint called Nap's Lunch. The kids loved him, but mothers worried that the tall, solemn writer fellow from New York would put their children in a book...
...ambitious job on the road and in smaller towns, where they list not a single five-star restaurant but a number of four-starrers, such as La Crémaillère and Nino's in Bedford Village, N.Y.; The Lodge at Smuggler's Notch in Stowe, Vt; LaDoña Luz in Taos, N.Mex.; and the vastly overrated Stonehenge in Ridgefield, Conn...
Poultney, Vt...
...flock of national meets before he was killed in Italy as a ski trooper in 1945. Kyrre Tokle, another older brother, was still jumping in informal meets in the U.S. at the age of 55. (Last week Kyrre, now 57, lay critically injured in a Burlington, Vt. hospital with a skull fracture sustained while running a ski trail at full throttle...