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...publisher respectively of a magazine and a weekly paper-Scribner's Commentator and The Herald-which six months ago moved into their town from far-off Manhattan (TIME, May 26). The two publications settled down in a remodeled two-story building that used to be the old Sawyer Blacksmith Shop, to spread isolationist propaganda, but the townsfolk grew more & more puzzled...
...summer palace outside Teheran, tough old Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran listened intently to his radio. In London a BBC announcer was reading a famous Persian ballad, and through the spitting of static the Shah could hear an old story: how in the Middle Ages a heroic blacksmith named Kahveh killed a Persian tyrant. The poem ended, the announcer asked: "Where is Kahveh today...
Died. Frederic John Fisher, 63, philanthropist and automobile pioneer, eldest of the seven famous Fisher Brothers ("Body by Fisher"); of heart disease in Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit. Earning his early dollars as a blacksmith and coach builder, he switched from shop to shop to learn how everyone in the industry built carriages, before he was 30 became general manager of the largest U.S. coach-building company. In 1908, he plunged all his savings and all the money he could borrow to start the Fisher Body Co. which grew to be the biggest auto body manufacturer in the world...
...this very house lived old Dexter Pratt, whose popular blacksmith shop had been built next door at the corner of Story Street. Walking daily between Craigie House and Harvard Hall, Professor Longfellow Habitually stopped to chat with the genial forget tender. A strong friendship developed between the two, climaxed in 1839 when the poet immortalized smithy in a work that has been chanted by American schoolboys ever since...
When Tyler A. Whit more bought the Pratt homestead in 1939, he faced a situation-not uncommon to historians-of several different families claiming direct descent from the original "Village Blacksmith." Most convincing of these were some people bearing the respected Boston name of Hancock. Interested in authenticating the legend once and for all, Whit more supervised a minute scouring of the Cambridge archives and concluded that Dexter Pratt was the most logical hero of Longfellow's poem. One Torrey Hancock, whit more found, did build the house and operate the smithy; but he sold out to Pratt...