Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author-Editor Hough (Country Editor, Thoreau of Walden} has published the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard since 1920. and knows both New England and newspapering well enough to talk of them with fondness and disgust. He writes of a great American theme that Marquand treated more broadly in The Late George Apley and Santayana with more subtlety and depth in The Last Puritan. But Hough gives it the unique flavor of printer's ink and an old editor's green-eyeshaded wisdom. His novel, written in good journeyman's prose, is an effective polemic...
Johns Hopkins File (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). The program goes back to the peace and solitude of Walden for an envious visit to Henry David Thoreau...
Back at Squaw Valley, long-suffering Managing Director H. D. Thoreau (a great-grandnephew of the Walden Pond naturalist) said with a sigh that 80% of the female competitors will be housed in pairs, the rest three to a room. Said he: "In other Olympics, I've heard of competitors being billeted in schools and dormitories." What was more, while each country paid its own transportation and housing in previous Winter Olympics, Squaw Valley is laying out a subsidy of $500 per competitor...
...Thoreau had other troubles at home. With expenses running up, the committee was forced to ask the California legislature to add another $1,000,000 to the $8,000,000 the state had already sunk in Squaw Valley. Worst yet, only 135,000 tickets had been sold of a capacity total of 385,000. Innkeepers and landlords were cutting prices (e.g., February rental of a cabin with room for 14 was down from $4,000 to $1,900) as the storm clouds gathered over Squawk Valley...