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Poor "Lizzie" Peabody. "Busybody" might have been a better name. She was such a congenital, selfless do-gooder, almost too perfect a distaff product of New England's 19th Century intellectual flowering. As a child of four in Salem, Mass., she was already envious of Neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister Ebe, who was six and reading Shakespeare. Twenty-nine years later (1837) when future brother-in-law Nathaniel published his Twice-Told Tales, Liz sang his praises so busily that Hawthorne got tired of her. Once during the Civil War when Liz decided that Abraham Lincoln was running...
...head high because her family had once been rich, though now she had to roll back the parlor rug and teach the neighbors' children when she wasn't brought to bed with her own (she also bore three sons and another daughter who died in infancy). Father Nathaniel was a dentist, a kindly potterer and whittler who never learned how to stand up to his energetic womenfolk. By any standards of the day, his daughters made their marks...
Beautiful Sophia was the youngest, reared by her mother as a fragile invalid only to shed her ailment when handsome Nathaniel Hawthorne made her his wife. The second sister, Mary, was the quiet one who married famed Educator Horace Mann-but only after sister Liz had made maidenly passes at Horace which included combing his hair. Liz never did get the men she coveted at various times of her long life, though one suitor seems to have committed suicide when Liz decided that he "was not sound-minded nor well-principled...
John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, will leave for Paris by plane Saturday to take part in discussions of the European recovery program by the Organization for European Economic Cooperation...
...Nominees are: Nathaniel C. Berkowitz, Ian W. Cadenhead, William J. DeMuth, Christopher P. Fearson, Walter Gilbert, Edward W. Judson, Jerome H. Levenson, Herbert M. Lobl, Rex N. MacAlein, Jery H. Miller, Roger H. Morris, Thomas F. Powers, Jerome S. Rice, Michael L. Riesner, Malcolm D. Rivkin, Ralph W. Walton, Walter E. Wolf, and Michael G.Yamin...