Word: newburyport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry House and Chicago, III, History, Cecily Orenstein of McIntire House and Great Neck, N.Y., Fine Arts, Nancy B. N. Rash of Holmes Hall and Louisville, Ky., Fine Arts, Ann C. Richards of Warner House and New York City, Fine Arts, Joan C. Rigney of Everett House and Newburyport, Social Relations, Julie Roy of Briggs Hall and Boston, History and literature, Mrs. Anita B. Van vector of Cambridge, English, and Kathryn L. Voelker of Moors Hall and Columbus, Ohio, Biology...
...first international effort to probe the mysteries of the Far North, U.S. Lieut. Adolphus Greely in 1881 led a well-equipped, 24-man team to establish a base camp on Ellesmere Island, more than 1,000 miles north of the Arctic Circle. A tall, spade-bearded Yankee from Newburyport, Mass., Greely was not alarmed when the first supply ship failed to reach them. But in the second summer, a supply ship failed again: it was trapped and sunk in the grinding ice floes above Baffin...
...week's doings read like social notes from Newburyport, Mass, or La Jolla, Calif. Cub Scouts were meeting at the home of Den Mother Katherine Williams...
...Newburyport. just after the Revolutionary War, was fast slipping its Puritan chains. The rich, the decent and the God fearing still ran things, but there was plenty of heavy drinking, and sons of the well-to-do liked to prove their nonchalance by slipping a hundred-dollar bill into a sandwich and eating it. Poor Timothy Dexter wanted desperately to break into the upper crust, but he hadn't a prayer. All he had was money, made by buying up Continental dollars for pennies when most people thought they would become worthless. Overnight a man of affairs instead...
...drunk or sober." He sees him as a caricature of his period, but his dubious hero gives him a chance to revisit a time and a way of life that Marquand found more gracious and attractive than the "five o'clock shadow of mediocrity" that is creeping over Newburyport. It was only a little way down the road, in neighboring Newbury, that death found Marquand himself two months...