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...take them over." Hall is a world's fair buff who has never seen one before. He has been longing to ever since his parents in Jackson, Miss., would not let him hitchhike to the New York World's Fair in 1939. He has collected a stack of material-postcards, folders and samples-on world's fairs dating back to the first one in London's Crystal Palace in 1851. Another of his packrat collections of oddities inspired his recent book, The Best Remaining Seats (TIME, Dec. 8, 1961). a recall of the gilded movie palaces...
Students entering the stacks of Widener Library will be required to sign a register as well as show stack passes, according to new rules planned for introduction in the near future...
...francs (about $100). But Michael and Sarah were soon building up a collection of their own, in 1917 bought Woman with a Hat after Leo turned against Matisse. By the time Michael and Sarah moved back to California in 1935, they had about 50 oils, 20 bronzes, and a stack of drawings, most of them by Matisse...
...next room four middle-aged secretaries cut out articles from Communist publications and Hearst newspapers. One of them has a stack of Hearst-writer George Sokolsky's columns in a wooden tray. A few Sokolsky articles, neatly clipped, lie flat on the desk and she reads them carefully...
...talk, gains speed, and skims along by free association. He remembers his Indiana boyhood with a command of imagery so precise that he can spin into the air everything from the smell of an old-fashioned icebox to the guilty excitement of an adolescent boy looking through a stack of Breezy Story Magazines down in a corner of the cellar. When he begins to run out of breath, jazz comes on softly behind his voice, and he continues, accelerating maniacally, until the jazz drowns his voice altogether. The jazz ends abruptly. Shepherd begins again. He is the inspired kinghead...