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...PINKERTON STORY (366 pp.)-James D. Horan & Howard Swiggett-Putnam...
...TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON (282 pp.)-Vern Snelder- Putnam...
...second owner of the Bishop's Palace was no more palatable to the Cambridge citizenry than the first. John Borland, a shady Tory merchant, was finally kicked out of town in 1775. General Israel Putnam and the Rebel Army then took over the mansion as their headquarters, and the Apthorp house remained a military establishment during the Revolution...
Died. Hamilton Holt, 78, from 1925 to 1949 president of Florida's Rollins College (see EDUCATION), onetime editor and owner of the weekly Independent, now defunct; of a heart attack; in Putnam, Conn. At Rollins, Brooklyn-born President Holt abolished lectures, substituted group discussions, credited originality as much as "A" grades, allowed students to determine their own direction and rate of progress. On the side, he stumped the country in support of the League of Nations, later espoused such lesser causes as simplified spelling ("thru") and the Eighteenth Amendment, ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. senate and the Connecticut legislature...
...week's end, a majority of the trustees, gathered in Manhattan for an emergency session, finally stepped in to call a halt to the whole tragic affair. Before they could reach a decision, they received one final shock: Rollins' idolized ex-President Holt died in Putnam, Conn., at 78 (see MILESTONES...