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...least something mineral. His milky-blue uniform with brass buttons and bright gold stars & bars suggested considerable rank, if an indeterminate branch of service. But there was nothing indeterminate about the man inside the uniform. He was Samuel Floyd Keener, 61, who owns and runs Canton's Salem Engineering...
Norman M. Abramson of 175 Glenway St., Dorchester; English High. Arlon T. Adams of Heath Route, Shelburne Falls; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Marshall Baker of 10 Gardner St. Salem; Salem High. Milton R. Baker of 43 Strathmore Rd., Brighton; Boston Public Latin. John S. Bowman of 87 Ceder St., Malden; Malden High. Paul A. Broduer, Jr., of 8 Surry Rd., Arlington Heights; Phillips Academy, Andover...
...like the tobacco business. At the University of North Carolina he was No. 1 in his class, and president of Phi Beta Kappa. At Yale he was an editor of the Law Journal. After a few years of practice as a lawyer in New York and Winston-Salem, he headed a group which bought the city's two lackluster newspapers (Winston-Salem Journal and Twin-City Sentinel), became publisher and made them successful. A self-deprecating, earnest man, Gordon Gray is the rare publisher who can say, and sound convincing, "I consider myself a trustee for the community...
...Shirley Jackson, whose recent New Yorker stories have been grouped in "The Lottery," is a practicing amateur witch. This is surprisingly easy to believe. For some of her stories manage to conjure up black magic that would have been extremely self-satisfying to any of Miss Jackson's late Salem forerunners...
...with varying degrees of critical acumen and psychological acuteness, on his published works. One result is that in the past 50 years a series of well-nigh indistinguishable opuses have been written about him. Their general story is that Hawthorne was descended from one of the witchcraft judges of Salem; that his father, a sea captain, died when he was three; that he went to Bowdoin, lived in seclusion after graduation, and published his first stories anonymously. This version of his life has been worn smooth from much handling; it is the classic, rather melancholy picture of the American literary...