Word: laconia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE'S A GIRL IN MY SOUP spoons out its comedy in Ivoryton, Conn., Aug. 11-17; Laconia, N.H., Aug. 18-23; Beverly, Mass., Aug. 25-30, wiih William Shatner. Also plays Charlotte...
Died. Robert ("Red") Rolfe, 60, baseball great, from 1934 to 1942 third baseman for the then peerless New York Yankees; of cancer; in Laconia, N.H. Though Rolfe was primarily a glove man, he was also a threat at bat (.289 lifetime average) and noted for his game-winning hits. He helped the Yanks to six pennants and five World Series titles, then as a manager in 1950 startled the baseball world by finishing second with a mediocre Detroit Tiger club that had finished fourth the year before. In 1954, he returned to his alma mater, Dartmouth College, where he served...
...Government." Secret societies were formed on both sides. Southerners who called themselves "Heroes of America" gave clandestine support to the Union; Northerners organized as "Knights of the Golden Circle" recruited troops for the Confederacy and distributed arms to Lincoln's foes. The Northern press was widely critical. The Laconia, N.H. Democrat went so far as to urge that Lincoln and the Constitution be discarded, and that the Democratic Northern states combine with the Southern "rather than have the country divided and ruined to carry out the self-righteous nigger abstractions of a set of ignorant and hypocritical fanatics...
...Hollywood's screen at 42, first as the malevolent, disembodied voice in The Invisible Man, followed by 55 other roles, from the corrupt French cop in Casablanca (1942) to the suave British diplomat in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), winning four Academy Award nominations; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Laconia...
...Cape Codder, a weekly newspaper published in Orleans, editorialized Thursday that "a clear and present danger" exists on the Cape after recent riots at Newport, Hampton Beach and Laconia. "Given these circumstances," the paper argued, "it seems clear that Cape Cod towns have the right to take action to defend themselves, if not the duty...