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...Howorth, owner of Square Books in Oxford, Miss., is the city's former mayor
Square Books (25,000; Oxford, Miss.). This charming store in a Reconstruction- era building carries a full range of titles and offers tomato-basil pie in a second-floor cafe. Owner Richard Howorth maintains a local flavor with a section devoted to Oxford's best-known citizen, William Faulkner. A small sign above the stack of copies of the 8 1/2-lb. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reads, $5.98 PER LB. SAME AS CATFISH FILLETS...
...other recipients were Lucy S. Howorth, a Mississippi lawyer and women's rights advocate, Esther Peterson, a well-known consumer rights advocate, and Dr. Helen B. Taussig, '21, a pioneer in pediatric cardiology...
After a telephone tip one day last week, police rushed to busy Oxford Street, the heart of London's main shopping district, where bombs were said to have been planted. Police Explosives Expert Kenneth Howorth, 49, a former army warrant officer who had tackled I.R.A. bombs in Northern Ireland, went into a Wimpy hamburger shop to defuse one of the bombs. It blew up in his face, killing him instantly. Another bomb, hidden in a rest room in a nearby department store, was successfully removed by an explosives expert, who had just heard the blast that he knew...
Sometime next spring Lady Anderson hopes to have Atomica played by a professional orchestra. Meanwhile, Founder Howorth is dreaming of the day when she can stage Isotopia at the Albert Hall. "We would have room there," she explained with a hectic smile, "for all the 92 transmutations of the atom. Then we could have the explosion...