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...evening last month, NBC-tuned citizens of Holyoke, Mass, rose abruptly from their radios, rushed to a vacant lot at Prospect and Walnut Streets, and began digging frantically with knives, spoons, shovels or any implements they had. One man brought a bulldozer. Within an hour, two of the diggers unearthed 500 silver dollars apiece, and the lot looked as if it had been bombed...
...event attracted droves-townspeople, tourists, buyers from Texas and Michigan. They climbed the wide, stone front steps flanked by two enormous iron urns, to view the treasures inside: crystal-and-brass chandeliers, a heaving sea of mildewed objects, corniced walnut wardrobes, marble-topped bureaus-some 10,000 numbered items, stacked in the halls, standing in the serried, airless bedrooms. A dozen garlanded chinaware cuspidors clustered beside a bundle of lace curtains. Metal Indians and painted washstands stood on the vast drawing-room floor, while a gleeful Saratoga schoolboy banged at a bandy-legged grand piano. Love's Tribute...
...Well, I entered Partisan territory ten miles behind the fighting line, traveled 25 miles in an automobile, saw a Partisan train, and visited the last session of the Anti-Fascist Youth Congress. Now three barefoot urchins are arranging a bouquet of cherry blossoms by a pool under a huge walnut tree. This is liberated enough...
...boss of these operations, handsome, silvery-haired, 46-year-old Nate Twining runs his show from a regular Mussolini of a desk-a huge arc of walnut originally built to the specifications of an Italian general. Under its glass top are maps; above the maps Twining allows nothing but a pen and inkwell to linger...
...interviewers have been admitted in recent months to the walnut-paneled office of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick. But last week the tall, testy, taciturn publisher of the Chicago Tribune (circ. 925,000) consented to receive one. The lucky fellow was suave Columnist Marquis W. Childs (circ. 7,500,000), who has succeeded the late Raymond Clapper in 108 newspapers (187 took Clapper). Next day in Chicago's tabloid Daily Times Colonel McCormick could read Childs's bread-&-butter letter. It was a Childs-like appraisal of "one of the major myths of our times...