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...show. "The English Lakes in Sunshine and Shadow" at Hilles Library. He had set his desk between the window ledge supporting blooming begonias and the bookcase containing his leather-bound embossed sets of Blake and Turner prints, Economically equipped with half-a-dozen paints, water and one brush, he had had a gorgeous time. At 78, he had laid a lifetime of artistic training and personal experience to harvest creating what he calls "my little pictures." However harmless Mr. Feild thinks his watercolors, there is nothing insipid about their author. He possesses an enviable impressionability and gentle wonder. Most aspects...
...have known that such an investigation was under way. He also asserted that he had done no wrong by using Sharp's money to buy stock for a federal bank examiner who was checking Sharp's bank. The most serious charge that Wilson could not brush off was that he had paid for the installation of eavesdropping devices used against federal and state bank examiners investigating irregularities in the Sharp-controlled Sharpstown State Bank in 1967. While such bugging is not unlawful in Texas, it did break the security of an official investigation. Wilson insists that...
...brush up on some shortorder cookery from his early days in a diner. But he is soon humming cheerily about their split-level, swapping recipes, gossip and, yes, much, much more with the girls in the neighborhood. Limning a scene for the inevitable Walter Matthau film that should result from this book, De Vries offers a cuckolded husband bursting into the Banghart kitchen justly bent on vengeance, only to be disarmed and routed by Tomcat Al in a fluffy apron, just putting his potatoes on. "Mmyes?" says Al, delicately smoothing an eyebrow...
...work outdoors. Based upon the philosophy of the CCC, the forestry camps are intended to offer their workers labor that is "both productive and therapeutic" by allowing them to trade the crime-wise environment of the old reform schools for a chance to serve society by fighting fires, clearing brush, and controlling pests in California's great outdoors...
...from the period. (One other bit of nostalgia I could go for in a big way would be the removal of the floor mikes that distort half the sound of this show. Who wants to hear a chorus sound as if it's singing in the middle of a brush fire...