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...house-hungry, comfort-starved Alaska, Shangri-La is a place called POW. Officially, POW is the 400-acre Port of Whittier, located on an arm of ice-free Prince William Sound and back-dropped by the glaciated peaks of the Chugach Mountains, which provide some of the world's wildest, most breathtaking scenery...
...American publisher during the middle years of the 19th century were not abnormally fragile. Yet of Fields's list, Holmes, Emerson and Hawthorne are honored but widely unread; Harriet Beecher Stowe is a historical curiosity; the realist William Dean Howells is read chiefly by thesis writers; Longfellow and Whittier are snickered at; and Edwin P. Whipple, Henry Giles, John G. Saxe and a shelfful of others are wholly forgotten. Only Thoreau's reputation is still alive, and Thoreau is more often revered than read...
...better publisher than most. Fields instituted the practice, revolutionary before the international copyright law was signed, of paying royalties to British authors. And the reader is rather fond of him when he retires from the book trade to lecture yokel audiences on "cheerfulness" and his recollections of Whittier. Historian Tryon treats his subject gently in a placid Victorian prose that is almost too well suited to his subject...
Died. Leon George Roth, 67, part-time janitor for Cincinnati's Whittier elementary school and the U.S. Army private who on Nov.11, 1918 carried the surrender message that ended World War I; of a stroke; in Springfield, Ohio. As Motorcycle Dispatch Carrier Roth stood shivering in the cold near the railroad car where German and Allied officials had been secretly negotiating the armistice, a captain approached at 5:15 a.m. with a metal message tube to be taken 25 miles to U.S. General John Pershing's headquarters. "Ride like hell," said the officer. "This is one you must...
...Harvard to which James came in 1961 was a relatively mediocre educational institution. But affiliated with it, if by nothing more then geography, was an outstanding array of gifted and vigorous men. The home-grown Atlantic Monthly was then publishing the work of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier, and Charles Eliot Norton. In science, to which James initially devoted his efforts, Asa Gray, Benjamin Peirce, and Louis Agassiz stood at the forefront. His earliest chemistry teacher, who--like Conant--later renounced a scientific career to become president of Harvard, found James "very interesting and agree able" but somewhat impulsive...