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DIED. Leonard Woods Labaree, 82, former Farnam Professor of History at Yale University, where he headed the ambitious project of collecting, annotating and publishing all of Benjamin Franklin's surviving papers; in Northford, Conn. From 1954 until his retirement 15 years later, Labaree was in charge of a group of scholars who assembled copies of 27,800 manuscript documents, then transcribed and edited the first 14 volumes (including Franklin's spirited, salty Autobiography) of a collection that may run to 40 volumes when completed...
...wife" Violet, who has resumed life with her first husband, a functioning dipso poet named Skippy Mountjoy. Albert drops by to walk their dachshund every day. His girlfriend is a youthful, frantically athletic woman whom he calls the Human Dynamo. She telephones lim at night from New Canaan, Conn., to wonder whether the vanity plates on her new BMW should say YOGURT or SUNDAE or MUFFIN. Stooped by his literacy and sorrow, Albert must listen to the Dynamo complain: "You don't play tennis, you don't snow-ski, you don't water-ski . . . Albert, we have...
...Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges' championship regatta concluded on Lake Waramug in New Preston, conn., with the Radcliffe heavyweight oarswomen about one-and-a-half seats behind the strong Penn boat. Penn recorded a time of 4:53.5 over the 1500-meter course to Radcliffe...
Sunday, the Radcliffe heavyweights will travel to New Preston, Conn., to race in the Eastern Sprints Championship, culminating the career of the senior rower extraordinaire. Soon after the race, Spencer will compete for a position on the National Olympic squad as one of two college oarswomen invited to the trials...
...thing generally raised on city land is taxes," Charles Dudley Warner wrote 110 years ago. True then. True now. Never mind the grass, the trees, the shrubs, the vegetable gardens. What nourishes the municipal body is a bountiful tax harvest. But wait: Hartford, Conn., is raising a preposterous, or at least heretical question: Can the city dweller matter even more than the dollar itself...