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Next week the Boston Redevelopment Authority will begin demolition of an historic row of bookshops along Cornhill in downtown Boston. The Oldest extant book store in America, browsing ground of Emerson, the elder Homes, and Whittier, will yield to a new Government Center. And while a few citizens struggle to maintain some evidences of the past, the rest of Boston stands idly...
...Cornhill has long been one of the favorite browsing grounds of the great literary figures of New England. John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and scores of others prowled through the shops there often. Whittier's earliest works were first published in one of the printing shops in the area, as were the first editions of numerous now-famous pieces of American literature...
Inside the Feb. 4 issue, there were more devices to attract the "family" reader--cartoons, a picture page, a "Current Events Classroom," a "Scrapbook" column which included Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie," recipes, and advice on how to play bridge...
...Detectable Plan. Inside, the Observer scattered, according to no detectable pattern, a clutch of articles, feature stories, puzzles, pictures, cartoons, weather maps and poetry (including all 60 lines of John Greenleaf Whittier's Barbara Frietchie). Two stories on Pope John XXIII ran on separate pages (4 and 26); an obituary on Violinist Fritz Kreisler appeared on page 8, an obituary on French Artist Andre Lhote on page 15. Readers anxious to discover how the new paper would deal with U.S. culture were soon disillusioned: the Observer begged the question. Theater and book reviews were shot through with a rehash...
Appearing at a Whittier, Calif., banquet in honor of his 49th birthday, Republican Richard Nixon last week called upon both parties to "fight the extremes of the far left and the far right." The extremists are a small minority, said Nixon, "but their influence is far greater than their number because they are so active and so noisy...