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...born in relative poverty, the son of an unassuming parson who died when the boy was seven. He was thereupon adopted by his childless uncle Thomas, a Gargantuan export-import trader (tea, codfish, whale oil) who had built the first mansion on Beacon hill. Uncle Thomas put young Hancock through Harvard, class of '54, and then eight years in the counting room of the House of Hancock. When Thomas Hancock died, he left his 27-year-old nephew a fortune of ?80,000, the largest in New England...
...death when I was twelve. I was the apple of her eye and, God knows, she was my entire world. As one gets older and the grave begins to yawn, one feels closer and closer to one's father. [Olivier's father was an Anglican parson of austere Victorian rectitude.] I remember Tony Guthrie, a year or so before he died, saying, "Do you find yourself thinking about your father more and more?" and I said, "I do." It's as if an old man in a long white beard were waiting to fold...
...woman he addresses is a remarkable and unique person: Abigail Smith Adams. Her strength pervades the letters--she is left to raise four children, manage a farm, deal with tenants, cope with inflation and keep her husband informed of military and political affairs. She handles these challenges capably. The parson's daughter is also not afraid to advise her husband on politics, constantly drawing on the Classics or English poetry to underscore her points. In one letter she attacks the institution of slavery and then enjoins her husband to "remember the Ladies" when drawing up plans for the new government...
Northeastern's Jim Walker shut out the Crimson nine yesterday on ten hits and the Huskies capitalized on two costly Harvard mistakes, upsetting the Crimson at Parson's Field in Brookline, to further dim their chances of repeating as the Greater Boston League Champions...
...ruled out of play when the Husky fielder fell through the flimsy Soldiers Field tence. Northeastern's athletic director quipped yesterday before the game, "the fences are pretty strong in our park" Yesterday, though, Jim Walker didn't need that kind of help in defeating the Crimson nine at Parson's Field...