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Daisy Chain of Thought. In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the Vassar Class of '35 postponed its tenth reunion, sent out questionnaires instead. Sample queries : "Weight?" "Color of Hair?" "Wrinkles?" Out of the Red. In Woodstock, N.H., authorities gratefully accepted an unsolicited check for $1.20 from one L. Dewey of Muskegon, Mich., which wiped out the town's $1.19 debt...
Frank Merrill of North Woodstock, N.H., knew no Congressman who would appoint him to West Point. He finally got to West Point the hard way-by competitive examination after three years as an enlisted man in the Engineer Corps. He finished in 1929, aged 25, went into the Cavalry...
...knows most about bark canoes this week was happily polishing off his masterpiece: a book comparing the primitive canoes of America, Australasia and Tierra del Fuego. He is grey, lean E. (for Edwin) Tappan Adney, the most distinguished resident of Upper Woodstock...
...Ohio. Thus Adney accounts for his insight into the Indian mind. Ohio-born, he became a naturalized Canadian to qualify for a World War I Engineers' commission. Now he frets that he must register as a "British subject." He lives alone in a small cottage among Upper Woodstock's towering elms. He puts down his own pickles, launders his own shirts. He likes to speed parting guests with an ancient Malecite blessing: "May the horns of Wiwilamehkw (wee-willa-menka) protect you and your goods...
Mustered out as an ensign in 1918, John Carroll painted pictures for a time of the inmates in a Macon, Ga. insane asylum, made picture frames for fellow artists in Woodstock, N.Y., designed stained-glass windows for Tiffany, made copies of old masters in the Metropolitan Museum. His first Manhattan show was put on by an ex-bartender named Daniel...