Posthumous scholarly work by Dr Abbie Potts published
The last work of Troys Dr Abbie Findlay Potts appears posthumously titled The Elegiac Mode. Potts a former Loa Tone professor at Rockford College and Troy native, returns home after retirement to die in 1964. The book surveys elegiac poetry from Latin and English ballads to 19th and 20th century poets like Wordsworth Hardy Yeats and Lawrence, arguing elegy as clear meditation and light from darkness with warmth and passion.
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Abbie Findlay Potts
OL Wnsusn
Archna
Rockford College
Troy
Abbie Potts
Wordsworth
Hardy
Yeats
D. H Lawrence
H.W.G
A Killing Frost by Sylvia Wilkinson
This novel follows Ramie, a 13 year old narrator, and her grandmother Miss Liz a harsh North Carolina farm woman. Ramie spends Thanksgiving with Miss Liz and returns at Christmas to learn her grandmother nears death as the portrait of Miss Liz sharpens.
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Sylvia Wilkinson
Houghton, Mifflin
North Carolina
Miss Liz
Ramie
Liz
Ramie Ob
ASU to Open Cluster Colleges in Litchfield Park
Arizona State University plans a cluster of branch colleges in Litchfield Park to serve a projected city of 75 000 to 100 000 residents within 20 years. The 525 acre site was donated by Goodyear and the campus is expected to accommodate about 15 000 students by 1980 with facilities to grow.
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Litchfield Park
Ariz
UPI
Arizona State University
Goodyear
Times And Events Change Through The Years
A compact reminiscence by Herbert A. Calkins recalling Troy records from 1902 to 1914, including a Democratic ward meeting with a scalp wound, no hat brigade in Paris in 1927, Maple Beach Park fire of 1913, a 1903 quince crop claim, and other local notes spanning decades. The piece preserves named people, places, and events in a period voice.
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Herbert A. Calkins
Troy
11Th Ward
Fourth Street
Casey
Lawrence Broderick
Thomas Booth
Associated Press
Paris
Maple Beach Park
Hudson River
Troy-Menands Bridge
Lagoon Island
Astro Park
Mid-City Beach
Anti-Smoking Documentary on NET Journal
The Smoking Spiral a NET Journal documentary first aired last spring and tied to findings by the U S Public Health Service will be updated and repeated Monday at 9 p m on Channel 17 with a Saturday Sept 30 repeat. The program contrasts two smoking victims with tobacco boosters and includes Sen S Robert Kennedy and Thruston Morton among participants.
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National Educational Television
U.S. Public Health Service
Channel 17
Boston Globe
NET Journal
New York City
London
San Diego
Sen
S. Robert Kennedy
Thruston Morton
Kennedy
FCC
John Gardner
Henry Ram
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
L. A. Pavitt
M. P
Emerson Foote
McCann & Erickson
Come Over To My House Play Song Fragment
A fragment of a previous song lyric inviting a child to visit a house across the way. It mentions toys a dolly and sweet treats and hair curled as part of a pretend play scenario. The lines resemble a childlike invitation with a troubling undertone.
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Reader's Fare
Troy Woman’s Scholarly Book
Abbie Findlay
Potts
Cornell University Press
Maylean
M.A.S
Thoreau
Eliot Porter
Sierra Club & Ballantine Books
Ballantine
Sierra Club
Sierra
Porter
N.Y.S
Perlman’s Shell
2Nd Ave
107Th St
Community
Charles Ballantyne
Francis Avenue
12Th Ward
Second and
Harrison Street
Second Street
Sacred Heart
LaSalle Institute
United States
John J. Burkin
Thomas Doran
Hugh ‘Taggart
Edward Connolly
Albert Thuon
John J. Manning
John Layton
Hoosick Falls Muminating Co
Elm Street
Layton
Flas
4Th and
Congress Sts
Whitman
Schrafft
Panging
Tranumition
Fearche
Nystam
Electrical Siren
Coole Motors Corp
Deckor _ SALES
U.S
Troy Defreestville RD
Service
Eves
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