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...Nowadays, she tries to use the same woods Stradivarius used; she gets spruce and curly maple from the mountains of Czech been seasoning since World War I, and Lombardy poplar from the crates used to ship Chianti bottles from Italy. Toughest wood of all to find is the seasoned willow that Stradivarius used for blocks to strengthen the corners and ends of his violins; Mrs. Hutchins now gets it from polo balls and broken cricket bats, sent to her by friends in England...
...broke through the wintry sky as the funeral cortege made its way to Willow Wild Cemetery, where, in the family plot, Sam Rayburn was laid to rest beside the grave of his favorite sister, Lucinda...
...world's great spectacles of nature, and campers know it. They fished last week in the Cascades of the Pacific Northwest, threaded among the prehistoric ruins at Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park, trailed the animals in the Adirondacks, bathed in the cold streams of South Willow Crater in Utah. On the moonscapes of Arizona, in the thick forests of Upper Michigan-wherever the land had managed to preserve its ancient dignity-both tenderfoot and oldtimer paid his respects to grandeur. In return, they absorbed something as ineradicable as it is elusive: the rapture of the spirit...
...Jung never shrank from death, but with his powerful constitution and ever-young, inquiring mind, he held it long at bay. Last week, in the willow-shaded seclusion of his home at Küsnacht, on Lake Zurich, the long-poised arrow flew to its target. Death came peacefully, just short of his 86th birthday, to Carl Gustav Jung -the last survivor of psychology's Big Three and of the great feuds that raged among them...
Shooting Particles. Though his constructions often resemble something in nature-a huge sun, a giant dandelion, a weeping willow-Bertoia does not work directly from nature. Usually he places a piece of paper over an inked surface and with a wire brush gently traces out a quick, freehand design. For more solid forms he may press the paper with his fingers, or use a piece of metal to print a sharp edge. When the design pleases him, he tries to reproduce it in metal, twisting and bending bunches of rods this way and that. As he wrestles with...