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Vintage. In Sparta, Wis., Tavernkeeper Carl J. Waters was fined $250 on a charge that when children came around to his saloon on Halloween chanting "Trick or treat," he gave them shots of whisky...
Born in East Sparta, Ohio, Richard began life as a normal boy. Then, in 1930 at age seven, for reasons no doctor has ever fully explained, he lost his sight...
...likely that both Freddy and her schoolmates at that time cared less about the political situation in Europe than about Freddy's reason for visiting her two "aunts"' (actually second cousins) at the Villa Sparta, just a short walk from school. The reason: the presence at the villa of the aunts' younger brother, Crown Prince Paul of Greece...
...archeologist, auditor, barmaid, chemist, dentist, dice girl, governess, laundress lawyer, missionary, politician, puppeteer, probation officer, prostitute, riveter, robber, social worker soda jerker, teacher, typist, U.N. delegate, WAC. *Less inhibited were some noted teenagers of the past. Says Kinsey: "Helen was twelve years old when Paris carried her off from Sparta Daphnis was 15 and Chloe was 13. Heloi'se was 18 when she fell in love with Abelard. Tristram was 19 when he first met Isolde. Juliet was 1'ess than 14 when Romeo made love to her. All of these youths, the great lovers of history, would...
Persimmons in Sparta. As Massachusetts' 55th governor, Christian Herter joins a variegated pantheon of men who have occupied the handsome old Bulfinch statehouse. The first governor was John Hancock, a vain and arrogant aristocrat who was as popular as he was inept, won nine terms in office. Poor, plain Sam Adams tried and failed to turn the Commonwealth into a "Christian Sparta." The election of David I. Walsh marked the rising tide of immigration: he was the first Irish Catholic to win the governorship. Persimmon-faced Cal Coolidge reversed the trend, turned back to Yankee conservatism. In three terms...