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...Quaint Holy Cross posters like "Virginia ham will be our bacon" got an airborne answer yesterday noon as a monoplane with an unidentified Crimson partisan at the wheel strafed the Worcester campus with leaflets...
...Hudson River mansion of Washington Irving, restored by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (at a cost of almost $1,000,000) to the approximate condition in which the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow left it when he died in 1859, was opened as a public museum. Inside the quaint white pile, decked with crowstep gables, weathercocks and bronze finials, visitors found Irving's library intact, saw his shaving equipment, medicine bottles, pens and four-poster...
Just as they are about to leave the quaint fishing village for Paris and married love, Mitchum turns up from years of imprisonment, with a beard and more desire than both of them put together. A beautifully photographed fog promptly descends, through which the three principals grope, knife, shoot and shout their way toward a predictable ending...
History of another kind was also written in blood on the night of November 12, 1840. In one of the quaint alcoholic college traditions known as the "Calathump," students customarily gave vent to their opinions of instructors whose "walk and conversation" were unpalatable. One Professor J. A. G. Davis, chairman of the faculty and apparently rather unloved, was instantly shot by a marauding masked student whom he sought to identify. The "calathump" institution along with the "dyke," a lynch-party directed at students overly "addicted to calico" or Southern Womanhood, fell into gradual disuse in 1856. Ancestral example, however...
Edith Halpert shies at selling her best finds to private collectors, lovingly hides them away in the old Connecticut farmhouse where she spends her summers. "These things are not cute a bit," she says proudly, "and they're not quaint either. They're art. The one quality they all share is design, you see, and that's what contemporary artists emphasize too. Our modern painters have learned a lot from these folk artists...