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David Johnson Waterbury, Conn...
...first things I did upon arriving in Cambridge in 1926 was to go swimming in the nude in Boston Harbor. For a country boy (there were 24 in Ridgefield, Conn. high school graduating class), this was a novel experience. It was a big public beach, the name of which I do not remember, and it was crowded with males of all ages and descriptions. The more modest ones wore a tiny jock strap which they got with their tickets, but most were not modest...
Sally Foley Bethany, Conn...
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...