Manchester and the Amherst years loom in memoirs
The narrator recalls William Manchester and their years at Massachusetts State College in 1940, detailing dorm life, beer, and contrasts between prewar innocence and wartime experience. Manchester serves as a fearless, nonconforming figure who enters the Marines, endures heavy combat, and returns to campus with a transformed outlook shaping later ambitions.
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Manchester
Massachusetts State College
Amherst
Hemingway
E.e. Cummings
Thomas Wolfe
Life and career of Manchester the journalist
The reminiscence recalls Manchester's path from University of Missouri studies to a Kansas City Star reporter role, then a Baltimore Sun hire after Mencken admired his master's paper on Mencken. It notes his later move to foreign correspondence, fiction success with City of Anger, and Holiday magazine contributions, ending with plans to discuss a Berkshire Holiday piece and a past rift now healed.
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Bill
University of Missouri
H.L. Mencken
Kansas City Star
Mencken
Baltimore Sun
Close Circle
Manch
New York
Greenwich Village
Manchester
the Sun
India
Baltimore
Wesleyan
Holiday Magazine
Bennington Village Meeting Warned For March 20 1967
Notice warns legal voters of Bennington to meet at the Elementary School on March 20 1967 at 8 00 PM to consider annual reports set budgets for fire department personnel and tax exemptions for long serving members plus officers and water funds. Additional session on March 21 1967 to vote by ballot articles 9 through 16 on taxes reimbursements water connections property purchase and parking lot development.
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Bennington
Fire Department
Marion Hardy
Frost Road
Richard Sleeman
School Street
Board of Water Commissioners
Davis
Pleasant Street
Vermont
Hilda Hurley
Televisions Review Triumphs McLuhan as Educator Figure
Television in Review praises Marshall McLuhan on NBEC TV for Sunday air time, calling him a remarkable personality and an energizing educator who sparks thought. The piece lauds his provocative ideas and his ability to engage youth, noting he could become a national sensation with a weekly half hour.
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Hollywood
UPI
Nbectv
Marshall McLuhan
McLuhan
Ernest Pintoff
Vietnam
Twiggy Heads For New York
Twiggy, 17, leaves London for a six week New York photo modeling tour and clothing line launch. Real name Leslie Hornby, she has become a leading British fashion icon with a waifish frame and mod style. Her passport controversy and travel with her father and manager are noted as she seeks Americans’ embrace of the Twiggy look.
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Twiggy
England
New York
Leslie Hornby
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Europe
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Dial
B.C
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Stan Drak
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E.M. Frazier
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Richard Wells
Bennington Road
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Friendly Ice Cream Shop
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