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Benjamin F. Wright Ph.D. 25, president of Smith College, will deliver the commencement address at the Radcliffe graduation June 12 in Sanders Theatre. Chaplain for the exercises will be the Rev. John C. MacLeod, of the First Presbyterian Church, Newburyport, Mass...
FRANCIS T. BRESNAHAN Newburyport, Mass...
...home town of Newburyport, Mass., Novelist John P. (Point of No Return) Marquand, 59, was "resting comfortably" in a hospital after suffering a heart attack at his Kent's Island home...
Novelist John P. Marquand was the guest of honor at a luncheon last week in his old home town of Newburyport, Mass., attended by 200 of New England's top businessmen. But, as the nation's leading satirist later confessed, he was not quite sure why he had been honored. Novelist Marquand might have wondered still more if he had turned his satiric eye on the group which honored him, and which he had joined only shortly before. Its name: the Newcomen Society of England in North America...
...troubled waters of America today." The chief moorings seem to be the dinners or luncheon, such as the one for Marquand, at which the honored guest, usually a businessman and always a Newcomener, tells the story of how his own organization became a success. (Marquand spoke on "Federalist Newburyport.") The speech is often printed in booklet form by the Princeton University Press and widely distributed by the society-usually at the expense of the honored guest or his employer...