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...Bryant Pond is one of those tiny Maine towns that come upon the traveler as suddenly as a streak of summer lightning. There you are, tooling north on Route 26, dazzled by an occasional stand of white birch, sniffing the pinelike incense, just about convinced that this is God's country the way the glaciers carved it out 12,000 years ago. Then the road descends and a white Baptist church materializes on the left, as if designed for Our Town. At the bottom...
hill, as the wayfarer battles a curve and then a second, sharper right turn, two other obligatory props of a New England town blur past: the village store and the post office. Bryant Pond would be a dot on the map, located by reference to nearby towns with such names as Norway, Paris and Mexico, if it were not for one curious fact: this little way station happens to be the home of the last crank-telephone system in the U.S. Here is how it works. Somewhere in the modest stillness of Bryant Pond, someone rotates a crank, jangling...
Could anything be more of a family operation? And like every family, the Bryant Pond Telephone Co. had given everybody the illusion that it would live more or less happily ever after. Then Elden Hathaway turned 65, thought some, and quietly sold for $50,000 the stock in the business he had bought for $2,500 in 1951. Elden: who had strung Army field wire at $14 a mile to add to the 100 or so subscribers he began with. Elden: who had tinkered with one secondhand switchboard after another-Western Electric, Stromberg-Carlson, Northern Electric. Elden: who had pulled...
...Dallas suburb, Truck Driver John Parrish, 46, after an argument with employers over $1,600 in wages, went on a rampage, fatally shooting six people and wounding four others at three places where he had worked. He was finally killed in a Shootout with police. A day later, Junett Bryant found her son Ricky Lee, 31, dead on the bedroom floor of his cottage near Fort Worth, stabbed, castrated and decapitated. Four more victims were next door. Larry Keith Robison, 25, who had been staying with Bryant while looking for a job, has confessed to the killings...
...newsroom set, which clashes oddly with the scene it leads into, the laid-back living room of Good Morning America, NBC's expanded Today used approximately the same cast on the same set. The only visible change last week was the less than exuberant mood of Co-Anchor Bryant Gumbel. Though he was given additional pay for having to rise at 4:30 a.m., Gumbel told TIME: "I don't think anybody in his right mind would choose to get up earlier and work more. But I was not going to be the reason why it could...