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Died. Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell, 98, tiny, frail widow of U.S. composer Edward (To a Wild Rose) MacDowell, who established a memorial artists' retreat at Peterborough, N.H. after his death (1908) with funds raised from concerts (she was an accomplished pianist), speeches and friends' donations; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. A gentle, indomitable woman who wore an old-fashioned pompadour and dressed in purple silk and white stockings, Marian MacDowell presided until 1946 over the rustic 600-acre MacDowell Colony, which sheltered 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Thornton Wilder, Willa Gather, Aaron Copland, Edwin Arlington Robinson...
Sportsmen will find New England ski slopes in exceptional condition this weekend. Most resort areas will be in good-to-excellent shape with North Conway, Franconia, and Peterborough reporting optimum conditions on all slopes...
...arms and on the verge of the biggest display of teacher defiance in British history. As a matter of fact, Sir David would probably be in the soup no matter what he decided to do. "If he showed himself in our staff room," said one teacher from Peterborough, "he would be lucky if he were not tarred and feathered on the spot...
...Love & War. In Peterborough, Ont., after two youths were arrested for stealing Lawyer Arthur Fair's car, they requested that Fair act as their counsel...
...World War II, when others again cautiously retired to safety, Perkins had the courage to expand once more, thus was ready to cash in on Britain's postwar boom in trucking. "Ginger" Perkins built a 575,000-sq.-ft. plant in Peterborough, Northamptonshire that he claims turns out more diesel engines than any other plant in the world. In six years he boosted sales of Perkins Ltd. from $6 million to almost $39 million. Last week Ginger Perkins was ready to start deliveries on his latest big order: 2,000 diesel engines (at $700 apiece) to Yugoslavia for tractors...