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...profit sharing at the Union Leader in 1949, and will leave the paper to the employees when he dies. "I don't believe in inherited wealth," he says, but admits that he leaned heavily on his family's resources to acquire his first paper, the St. Albans (Vt.) Messenger, in 1941. His father, who became a wealthy minerals executive, was serving President Theodore Roosevelt as private secretary when Loeb was born in Washington 66 years...
...Radcliffe swimming team placed third Saturday in the sixth annual Women's New England Swimming and Diving Meet. Thirteen schools participated in the meet which was held at Middlebury, Vt...
Radcliffe's swimming team will send six individuals to the sixth annual Women's New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Meet tomorrow at Middlebury, Vt...
Woodstock, Vt., is the very model of the picturesque New England country town. It has a tranquil village green, stately brick and stone houses, and a postcard vista of the ski slopes in the adjoining hills. So it is only natural that outside investors (notably Laurance Rockefeller) have bought property there, and that the population of 1,150 includes a sizable proportion of writers, artists and wealthy exurbanites...
Died. Carl Ruggles, 95, pioneering American composer; of heart disease; in Bennington, Vt. A salty, cracker-barrel philosopher who attributed his longevity to dirty jokes ("If it hadn't been for all those laughs, I'd have been dead years ago"), Ruggles wrote out atonal works with crayon on brown wrapping paper. Though he was a notoriously slow worker and a painstaking perfectionist-only eight pieces that require a total of 90 minutes to perform survive him-his sober tone poem Sun Treader is considered a modern masterwork...