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Impatiently plotting to get sprung from the Hoosick Falls (N.Y.) Health Center, where she has been temporarily inactivated for the past two months, Pastoral Painter Grandma Moses breezed past her latest birthday with one modest request, "I want my 101st to be the same as my first-very quiet...
When Grandma was finally persuaded to send some of her pictures to a country fair, along with canned fruits and jam, her preserves won prizes but her paintings attracted little attention. Not long after, however, a drugstore in the nearby town of Hoosick Falls, N.Y. put some of her pictures in the window. There they were spotted by a Manhattan collector named Louis Caldor. He bought them all and began trying to interest New York art dealers in Grandma's work. Finally he tried the newly opened Galerie St. Etienne, run by a solemn Viennese expatriate named Otto Kallir...
Technical Sergeant Stanley C. Farr of North Hoosick, N.Y., Ninth Air Force bombardier, headed home from Europe last week, wondering whether he would be discharged from the Army. In service since April 1941, a veteran of the campaigns in Africa, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, northern France and Germany, he had flown 160 combat missions, earning 32 awards and seven battle stars. His record adds up to 267 discharge points, highest thus far discovered in the European Theater and more than enough to get three men out of the Army. But Sergeant Farr, unmarried and a specialist whose services may still...
Edward C. Moore, St. Augustine, Florida--Hoosac School, Hoosick New York...
Cambridge weekend . . . . weekend you say? . . . . the last time I was up it went on from the opening of the fall drinking season, to Maundy Thursday . . . . yes and ended in the spring disinheritance . . . . weekend Indeed, why the Hoosick Whisick party itself wasn't over for eight days . . . . not until somebody found the last mural moosehead floating under Harvard Bridge and the plumbers had removed a stuffed badger from the innards of my open plumbing fixture . . . . a pretty notion of a weekend, just getting the, old grad back and doing a job on him . . . . what about my reputation? . . . . last year you know...