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...James Aberdijian, Armenian . . . and yesterday he fell at Concord. . . . We know what you long for, James. . . . We know what your dreams were like. . . . They were as American as apple pie . . . the crunch of a hot dog when you walk on it on a cold day . . . the smack of a wet cigar when it hits you across the face . . . the rattle of cement when you're in the mixer ... the cry 'Play ball...
When Maurice Bradford, a schoolteacher, was 28, and four years out of college, he killed a woman. He was sentenced to life in prison-but never lost his interest in education. He became librarian of the state penitentiary at Concord, N.H.; his 200-odd fellow inmates came to him for advice on correspondence-school courses to take and books to read. The library he built up (and was allowed to sleep in, instead of a cell) became the envy of other prisons...
...probable first choice. In London last week the UNO Interim Committee had narrowed down the possible sites to about 15, all within a radius of 85 miles of New York City or within 60 miles of Boston. Among them were Princeton, N.J., and such historic Massachusetts towns as Concord, Marblehead, Quincy, Dedham. Whatever the site, Congress will have to agree to surrender sovereignty over...
...first game of organized hockey in the U.S. was played more than 60 years ago at St. Paul's School, near Concord, N.H., and no St. Paul's grad has ever let anyone forget it. On the black ice of Lower School Pond (it's a bad year when the ice won't bear by Thanksgiving and last till Washington's Birthday), 400 of St. Paul's 437 boys play on 30 intramural teams, on six outdoor rinks, under a dozen assorted coaches. Hockey has always been the school's major sport...
Except for a brief period during the revolution when books were scattered to Andover, Concord, and other safer locations, Harvard Hall remained the college library until 1838. Then, Gore Hall, made possible by the unrestricted bequest of Christopher Gore, was built at a cost...