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...world knows about the Boston Athenaeum; few know that non-members are not only allowed, but invited, to push open its massive doors at 10 1-2 Beacon street. It would be a distinct breach to ask to see the famous collection of "scruple" books in which the members dip at will; and you mustn't even cast a longing eye at the Vanity Fairs laid out in the magaxine reading room. The Athenaeum, however, is a place no explorer should miss, even if the glimpse is a brief one, for the Athenaeum is the distilled quintessence of Bostonlanism. Hours...
...series of industrial excursions to take place on Tuesday afternoons has also been arranged. The schedule follows: July 11, Athenaeum Press; July 18, General Baking Company; July 25, Lever Brothers Company; August 1, Boston Fish Pier; August 8, W. F. Schrafft & Sons Corporation...
...body of legend surrounds Washington's false teeth. The Stuart Athenaeum portrait, which the Washington family refused to accept, pictorially reports with great accuracy the distortion which the clumsy plates caused in the First President's face. Dr. Greenwood counseled filling with candle wax holes eroded in the teeth by mouth acids. Washington is said to have stopped at a blacksmith shop for repairs on one occasion. It is also said that the springs were likely to stick, setting the President's mouth agape if he opened it too wide...
...South's richest cotton factors, he is the antithesis of a red-headed ragamuffin from Shreveport. Before the turn of the century, he headed the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. A lifelong foe of civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local crookedness. In 1920, with the aid of the "best people," he got himself elected Governor. So vicious were Huey Long's attacks that Governor Parker sued him for criminal slander, won a conviction. The judge, however, suspended sentence because of "the rashness of youth." Later Huey Long...
...curious thing about the whole censorship situation is that an announcement that the Can-Can Shimmy Girls were to go on at Charles Street would very probably arouse censorial activity, while if certain bits of dialogue were transposed from "The Front Page" to the stage of the Howard Athenaeum, that venerable institution would be closed not for just a month, but always. From this we might draw a reaffirmation of the proverb "there's a time and place for everything." Primitive reportorial humor is just as acceptable in a newspaper play as hard swearing was in the dugout in "What...