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' Ill OCTOBER 19-37 17 HFTER the last rush of Commencement in the spring, a lull falls over the Hill. During summer school the town yawns lazily, and then, in August, it falls sound asleep. Other towns may become dead in summer, but none so dismally dead as a college town when the college is closed. The town boy wanders the sidewalks aimlessly, seeing a Lawrence that others seldom see. Taxi drivers slumped slumbering in the seats of their parked cabs. The Hill hangouts closed completely, their doors bearing signs, Remodeling. Will Open Sept. 1. Barbers sitting in their own chairs, flipping absently through last June ' s Look. Ober ' s windows blank and empty, without lights at night. If the town boy goes to a show, there are perhaps five others in the audience, three of them over forty, two of them under ten. If he enters a store, the proprietor stares at him with suspicious unbelief. But then, in the last few days of August, the town boy has a thrill that others never have, for he sees the Hill awaken. The bang of hammers and the squawk of saws begin to issue from hangouts, from fraternity and sorority houses. Cars bearing Kansas licenses beginning 79 and 6 and 34 , or even plates from Tennessee or Cali- fornia, begin to rumble up Mississippi hill, faces peering curiously forth. Ober ' s windows burst forth in a blaze of light, new shirts, and fall tweeds. Taxis begin whizzing down Massachusetts, suitcases piled behind. Suddenly the movie audiences become younger, larger, and rowdier. Merchants no longer look up sadly and say, I suppose you want to use the phone. It ' s over there. Now they nod curtly and bark, Glad to see you back. Be with you in a minute. Abruptly the Hill hangouts fling open their doors to jammed booths, hysterical feminine greetings, and waiters dashing madly, with aprons flapping; they open their doors to back-slapping, to, YOU still here? WHADdayuhSAY? and to Caravan beating out so deafeningly that the sandwich man has to scream, Whatcha say goes with the ham? To everyone but the town boy it ' s the same old Hill. But to him it is a great, lovable monster which, for some perverse reason, hibernates in the summer and comes to noisy, lumbering, frantic life every fall.
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