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...April shower broke one day in Manhattan, falling impartially on thousands, including Henry Edwards Huntington. To keep his white mustachios dry, portly "H.E." ducked into an art gallery. Before he ducked out again, he had been sold a Raeburn portrait. Thus impulsively, in 1908, began one of the world's great collecting careers...
Entering 822, Roberts started in on the only regular exercise he ever takes: the lifting and downing of four large Scotch highballs before dinner. He stripped off his tentlike coat and trousers, took a shower, waddled around in his underwear for a time, got into a clean suit, and sat down to a roast beef dinner. Then he hustled his men back to the office...
Nightmare. In Orofino, Idaho, Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Converse woke up in a shower of glass, discovered that a passing horse had poked his nose through their bedroom window to nibble a vase of appetizing flowers...
Last week Dayton had a shower of green rain. It stained a few citizens' clothes and left a greenish tint on some white-painted houses. The press reported that local scientists were mystified...
...usual sense. Essentially, a House's attractiveness depends upon those who live there; and different kinds of people are attracted by different things: to some, a House's location may be most important, others may fancy the food or the House Master, still other Freshmen may be influenced by shower baths, or gigantic rooms, or a well-stocked record library, or quantities of squash courts, or just about anything else you care to think of. But on a recent Senior Class poll, the one reason that was favored overwhelming was this: "My friends live there." When you look back...