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...distant kin to the late Frank Gannett, who ran a bigger chain-currently 20 papers in four states. Guy's papers: the Portland Press-Herald, Express and Sunday Telegram, the Waterville Sentinel, and the Kennebec Journal in Augusta. Combined circulation...
Died. Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, 62, Pulitzer Prizewinning (for Strange Holiness in 1936) Maine poet, novelist (Lost Paradise, Red Sky in the Morning), regional historian (Kennebec: Cradle of Americans), lecturer and professor of English at Maine's Bowdoin College: of a heart attack; in Portland, Me. Raised on a Maine saltwater farm, Coffin began writing poetry while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, soon became a popular favorite for his nostalgic ballads of Maine life and Maine people. An ardent believer in poetry as a popular art, he read his works to audiences all over the U.S., inveighed against...
...Jeremiah Chaplin rested on his oars and gazed with tired satisfaction over the Kennebec River valley. He had rowed 20 miles upriver. There, he decided that June day in 1818, was an ideal site for his Maine Literary and Theological Institution...
...others: Kennebec, Upper Mississippi, Suwannee River, Powder River, The James, The Hudson, The Sacramento, The Wabash, The Arkansas, The Delaware, The Illinois, The Raw, The Brandywine, The Charles, The Kentucky, The Sangamon, The Allegheny, The Wisconsin, Lower Mississippi, The St. Lawrence, The Chicago, Twin Rivers, The Humboldt, The St. John's, Rivers of the Eastern Shore...
...Washington correspondent for five Maine newspapers (Portland's Press-Herald, Evening Express and Sunday Tele gram, Augusta's Kennebec Journal, Waterville's Sentinel, all published by Guy P. Gannett) May Craig keeps Mainers so well posted on national affairs that newsmen nave quipped: "As May goes, so goes Maine." This is somewhat exaggerated. No Down Easter herself (she was born in North Carolina, spent most of her life in Washington), May Craig is likewise no Republican. She describes herself as "about 75% New Dealer." But her Maine readers are fond...