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...last month, a cluster of art lovers stood tippy-toe outside the Art Center in Manchester, Vt. Within twelve minutes after the doors were opened, some 40 canvases were sold; by last week, the total had jumped to 205, fetching $10,000. It promised to be the fattest annual exhibition the Southern Vermont Artists, Inc. had ever...
...Composers' Conference and Chamber Music Center at Bennington, Vt., where about 50 composers and instrumentalists gather for two weeks in August to play for each other and the public...
During summer months, these green dicta issue from an ivory bower, a rustic, century-old house near Bennington, Vt. (winter headquarters: Mill Valley, Calif.). Carrying his 76 years lightly, Professor Overstreet is up at 4 on most mornings, dawdles over breakfast till 5:30 a.m. From then till 1 p.m. he writes in his barn. Afternoons are spent puttering about the garden and feeding a pet chipmunk. Since the nearest neighbor is half a mile away, the professor pretty much limits his interpersonal relations to his wife, with whom he spends the evenings studying a new enthusiasm, the mandolin...
...Patent Office in Washington announced that patent No. 2,204,004 had been granted to Elihu Root 3rd, 36-year-old grandson of the onetime Secretary of War and Secretary of State, and a graduate of Hamilton College who is now a free-lance engineer in Springfield, Vt. The patent: an optical device for taking minute and precise measurements for use in the machine-tool industry...
Bathtub Dreamer. "Bob" LeTourneau, who does not drink or smoke and flies some 200,000 miles a year in his private planes, spreading the Lord's word, combines his evangelism with hard-headed business sense. Born in Richford, Vt., he was still a boy when his family moved to the West Coast. He quit school after the seventh grade, made his first money selling pictures of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. He learned mechanics as a grease monkey in a garage, later set up his own earth-moving and contracting business at Stockton, Calif, on a loan...