Word: algonquin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, finished copies of the guidebook were whisked to ; Cambridge in a "sealed" truck. At exactly 4:45 p.m.. 1,500 employees were notified; the guidebooks were placed in their hands. At that very moment. Chuck Luckman was in Boston's staid old Algonquin where he had called a meeting of 25 leading Bostonians. including Harvard's James Bryant Conant. and Charles Francis Adams. Said he: Lever was going to build a 20-story building on Park Avenue at 53rd Street and a $3,000,000 research laboratory in Edgewater, N.J. Everything except manufacturing...
...program today with bowling on the green, golf, and backgammon at the Country Club in Brookline, and a dinner at 7 o'clock; the Fortieth Reunion Class started off last night with festivities at the Hatherly Country Club in Scituate and will wind up its preceedings at an Algonquin Club dinner tonight...
...shooting party" in Boston's Algonquin club last week, Host Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr., president of Johnson Automatics, Inc., introduced his latest "weapon"-an indoor target gun. With it, big (6 ft. 4 in.), handsome Mel Johnson, inventor of the Johnson semi-automatic rifle and machine gun, hopes to bring the rifle range into every home...
Called "Quineboquin" or "circular" by the Algonquin Indians, the river first deceived explorers by its broad mouth and led them to believe that it was the gateway to the vast expanses of the interior. Even Virginia's famous Captain John Smith, was fascinated by the Charles and he went to New England to seek gold, and if not gold perhaps fish, at the source of the river. He gave a map of the Boston area to England's Prince Charles, who took great delight in naming the various landmarks of the area and who finally gave his own name...
...night trains). Even in the North, she could not until fairly recently stay at most good hotels. In the South, she must still stay with friends. In New York City, she used to leave frantically applauding audiences to sleep at the Harlem Y.W.C.A. Then Manhattan's Hotel Algonquin, longtime rendezvous of U.S. literati, received her. Now most other Northern hotels have also opened their doors...