Word: richmond
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Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Coxe of Tenafly announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Alice Maxfield Coxe, to Mr. Eugene Dickerson Keith of Richmond, Kentucky...
KENNETH PAYSON KEMPTON, who has long been recognized as a writer of stories about Maine folks, turns his hand now to the life history of a Harvard instructor. Oliver Richmond was Maine-born, however, and the combination of Kempton's familiarity with Harvard and his knowledge of Maine is a happy one. As a result, "So Dream All Night" is a forceful yet unforced description of an English teacher and his difficulties...
Like many another Harvard instructor, Oliver Richmond was faced with the tenure problem. Its imminence was graphically brought home to him when his friend Whit lost his position. But Oliver refused to engage in apple-polishing in order to keep his own job, and he could only hope that his teaching and book-reviewing would prevent the axe from falling on him. Oliver had domestic as well as academic problems, moreover, for his daughter Carol revolted against the conventional manner in which Oliver and his wife had been bringing...
...lines around the Bethlehem Steel plant. In Chicago, strikers milled and jeered around the gates of International Harvester's McCormick plant, while people who recalled the bloody Haymarket riot of 1886, which was fought on the same spot, held their breaths. Men battled before the Harvester plant in Richmond, Ind. Strikers and police split each other's heads, fought with clubs, tear gas, pitchforks, baseball bats, brickbats. In riot's wake was a debris of hospitalized citizens, overturned autos, damaged property and partially shut defense plants...
...like Hardy's Max Gate, has also housed a dynasty of dogs. Novelist Glasgow is an antivivisectionist and for some 20 years has been president of the Richmond S. P. C. A. Her favorite Sealyham, Jeremy, is buried in a little marked grave at one side of the back porch. At the other side lies the grave of a poodle. Two other Glasgow dogs are buried in the Richmond pet cemetery under marble stones. Novelist Glasgow likes dogs so much that she has a collection of some 75 porcelain and pottery dogs. James Branch Cabell also keeps a collector...