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Though Robert Frost's paternal ancestors have been New Englanders for eight generations, the man who speaks with the voice of New England was born in exile-a continent's width away in San Francisco.* His father, a brilliant, erratic rebel who graduated high in his class at Harvard, had run away from a law career to edit a San Francisco newspaper, and became a Republican-hating Democrat. Frost remembers his father as "a wild man" who gave him many a whipping, remembers eating many of his lunches in saloons while his father talked politics...
...admission tickets, the seating capacity is 1600. It was 2200 before the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942 and the University may apply for a concession. The figure is based on fire prevention regulations that there be six square feet per person on the floor and a two-foot width of egress for every 100 persons...
...civil-rights program, hopes to make the Farmer a powerful political organ. Said he: "The Farmer is for any New Deal plan you can name." By last week Publisher Williams, 59, had about tripled Southern Farmer's circulation to 1,052,821, only a furrow's width behind the South's biggest farm publications, the Southern Agriculturist (circ. 1,103,034) and the Progressive Farmer (circ. 1,080,575),-but fields ap&rt in journalistic approach. Instead of teMing his readers how to farm, Williams gives them advice on economic matters and something to think about while...
...would be a notably narrow skyscraper (72 ft. wide, 544 ft. high). "Greater total width would have been undesirable," the FORUM explained, because so many of the prospective tenants were high brass who would require honorific outside offices. There was a similar diplomatic reason for the Secretariat's 4,000 separate air-conditioning units. "Such a luxurious standard," said the FORUM, "is enforced on U.N. by the contiguity of Icelanders and Abyssinians . . . each with his own idea of thermal comfort...
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