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Back in Tilden, Neb., the folks were buzzing with big talk. A local kid, towheaded Richie Ashburn, was knocking them dead up in the big leagues with the Philadelphia Phillies. It was his first season, too. Last week, the Ashburns just couldn't wait any longer. The family-even Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Elmo -set off to Chicago to watch Richie play...
...strode to the plate against the Cubs and tapped an easy grounder to the pitcher. While the pitcher was taking his time handling the ball, Ashburn was streaking for first base-and got there before the throw. The home folks beamed. Then he stole second base (the first of three he stole that game). Richie beat out another hit by sheer speed. Said one Phillies' coach: "I know I sound silly, but he's the nearest thing to Ty Cobb on the bases I've ever seen...
...house just off the campus. Last week he received his first full-length biography, Peabody of Groton (Coward McCann; $5), based in large part on his persistent and prodigious correspondence with his rich and famous alumni, their parents and friends.* The author, himself an old "Grottie," is Headmaster Frank Ashburn of Brooks School (North Andover, Mass...
...horse, graceful." From there he went to Cambridge, where he read Punch, Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson and the law-and not much else. "There is a striking similarity between the Rector's humor and that of Punch in the days when he was in Britain," observes Ashburn. When Endicott graduated, he knew only that he wanted to be useful...
...learned of her good fortune on her 44th birthday and on her 22nd wedding anniversary. Born in Old Town, Me., she had previously written for local newspapers. After graduation from the University of Maine, she married a classmate and went South with him to make their home. The Old Ashburn Place was written at night and during occasional free hours, took four years to complete. Planning to use her windfall to educate her children, Mrs. Jacobs visited Manhattan and Maine briefly, returned to Bay St. Louis, promptly set to work on another novel...