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...summers, he had spent his vacations on a farm high on Potash Hill, in the nearly deserted Vermont hamlet of Marlboro. Marlboro had once been a flourishing center, but its industry and population had gradually dwindled until three years ago even the postofice shut down. Now a few houses, clustered around a little church and a long-closed inn, were all that remained. Hendricks bought the 150-year-old farm next door to his own and set to work...
Died. Frederic William Goudy, 82, dean of U.S. type designers; of coronary thrombosis; in Marlboro, N.Y. A penniless bookkeeper until he was 33, Goudy turned to his rare craft with the conviction that printed words should aid, not distract, the reader. Of his hundred-odd simple, honest designs for printing type, six are now classic, one (Kennerly) is considered by some experts the most beautiful since the work of 18th Century Master William Caslon...
Barns & Bowls. It was only natural that Felix ("Doc"') Blanchard Jr. should be a fullback terror; 240-lb. Felix ("Doc") Blanchard Sr. had been one at Tulane, at least when he got mad enough. In Marlboro County, S.C., where they lived, young Doc began to imitate his old man early. When he was two and a half, he got his aunt to hold a football (see cut) and managed to kick it a few feet. The next year he tried out his father's pipe and set fire to the barn...
Blueblood Bradford won his reputation in two terms as District Attorney of Middlesex County, which surrounds Boston on the north with slums, farms and villages. In this time he sent the mayors of Cambridge and Lowell, and the State Commissioner of Public Works, to jail. (The mayor of Marlboro, another Bradford target, killed himself.) Bradford was re-elected with the biggest majority in Middlesex history (he had twice the lead of his fellow blueblood, Governor Leverett Saltonstall, who headed the ticket...
...doctor is small, husky Lieut. Amos Little of Marlboro, Mass., Dartmouth '39, Johns Hopkins Medical School '42, who began parachuting at the U.S. Forest Service Parachute School at Seelay Lake...