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...harasses would-be wreckers of Maine's environment. The attack is mounted by two Yale graduates, Editor John N. Cole. 46, and Publisher Peter W. Cox, 32, who raised $100,000 to pay for offset printing, two full-time reporters and a rented building in the hamlet of Topsham. Cole quit an incipient gray-flannel career in Manhattan to become a commercial fisherman, later edited several Maine newspapers. Cox is the son of Oscar Cox, a noted international lawyer. By no means opposed to all industry, they have warmly praised a few lumber and paper companies for enlightened...
Among the autograph seekers are quite a number of serious collectors, of whom the champion is Retired U.S. Army Colonel Robert F. Carter, 63, of Topsham, Me. (TIME, May 4, 1959), who now has 1,100 autographed TIME covers. Colonel Carter, who has all but 40 of the more than 2,080 issues of TIME published since the first one dated March 3, 1923, plans to have his collection carried on to March 3, 2023, TIME'S 100th anniversary. He plans in his will to provide that the collection be sold, and the proceeds given to charity...
Colby '60 Topsham...
...success of Auxilium Latinum helps convince Editor Warsley, retired from teaching (by a heart attack) seven years ago, that Latin is not a dead language. "Our households and necessities and tastes have not changed much," he will tell a visitor to his home in West Topsham, Vt. "Did you know that Caesar's favorite breakfast was ham and eggs with a glass of milk?" Auxilium Latinum's 25,000 readers send in a steady stream of inquiries for just such knowledge, e.g., "What color were Caesar's eyes?"* For a coming issue, Warsley plans a reader-requested...
...Topsham, Me. (pop. 3,500), Colonel Robert F. Carter, a 60-year-old West Pointer, is busily pursuing a hobby that reaches into the past and the future and extends around the world. Colonel Carter's determination is to read every article that has ever appeared in TIME. In the past three years, the retired Army officer has collected all but about 70 of the 1,887 issues TIME has published since it began on March...