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January 21, 1956

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Myself as Sportsman

Writer tells about shooting for sport at her home in Southern Rhodesia, when she was a girl. Her brother was a good shot and observed all sorts of …

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“Snowing in Greenwich Village”

Fiction by John Updike, from 1956: “The snow, invisible except around street lights, exerted a ﬂuttering, romantic pressure on their faces. ‘Coming down hard now,’ Richard said.”

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