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...hookup), the most ever, and the price of admission was $100 per person, also the most ever. The balls were generally glamorous, and most participants, at some point in the evening, had a good time. But many of the affairs were disorganized, and all were jampacked. Texas Millionaire John Bartlett, for example, was one of the unfortunates at the Sheraton-Washington Hotel, the most chaotic ball of all. He had paid $12,000 for six box seats, but when he left the main room briefly he found he could not get back in: 6,000 people were trying...
Emily Morison Beck, Editor Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Boston
...Bard and Bartlett...
...article by Otto Friedrich on John Bartlett and the 15th edition of Familiar Quotations [Nov. 3] is delightful and informative, but it is in error regarding the "shrinking" of Shakespeare. In fact, a few quotes have been added to the selection. The larger format and more economical type face of the latest Bartlett'shave saved much space, thus accounting for the discrepancy in pages between the editions...
...added that Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti supports enrollment cutbacks and that the savings should provide more funds for facility maintenance in the long...