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LeBaron Russell Briggs was born Dec. 11, 1855. in Salem. He graduated from the College in 1875, and was appointed dean...
...more than once, he confided in the journal he kept for more than 50 years, he fled the woods in terror of mysterious presences. "I have never learned to talk and have only listened to the trees," he wrote. Born in Ashtabula. Ohio, in 1893, he grew up in Salem, where he and his sister Louise often romped in Post's Woods hunting spring flowers, a pastime he later recalled in White Violets and Coal Mine. Even then he liked to sketch, and in high school recorded all the local wildflowers. After graduation he entered the Cleveland School...
...dominating figure in the play is Bessie Berger (Joan Lorring), an abrasively dislikable Momma Portnoy. Her ineffectual husband Myron (Salem Ludwig) sums up a lifetime of quiet desperation when he tells his son, "Don't think life's easy with Momma." Like many another line in the play, it lingers in the air with Chekhovian sadness, like a note struck on an unseen piano. Even though Myron is U.S.-born, he is a prototype of the immigrant father who was held in contempt if he failed economically, and derided as a philistine if he succeeded, often...
Drivers for the Michaud Bus Company in Salem-after a visit from the FBI yesterday morning-refused to drive six buses which were to have taken November Action Committee demonstrators to New Haven today...
...today. A nostalgic country twang resounds all up and down the pop charts. Glen Campbell and Johnny Cash, two singers once chained to the old country circuit, are now national figures with coast-to-coast network shows. Commercialized even further, the country strain runs into advertising?most egregiously in Salem cigarettes' unwittingly ironic paean to the joys of fresh...