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Young Joe Lee lives in a home on Beacon Hill that was built in 1797, but he has spent most of his life helping underprivileged kids in the slums around the Hill. He loves to sail and swim, so to get the pale-faced children in the sun he persuaded Boston authorities to open a public beach on the Charles River Esplanade, taught them to sail in $25 boats that he designed himself...
Last week's exhibition at the Boston school committee's Beacon Street building was a public show of classroom work done by the children. Notable was the ease with which moppets grasped economic and quasi-economic ideas, illustrated them with graphic charts and pictures. Examples: > An eighth-grade crayon drawing of an automobile, with tabs that pull out to illustrate the various farm products used in manufacturing a car. > Cartoon "movie" strips of manufacturing processes, from raw material to finished goods. > A play, The Loan Shark, demonstrating possibilities of fraud in loan transactions. > Home budgets worked...
...primarily respected for its impartiality, tradition has played a leading part in its appeal. Fond Bostonians like to recall its stand behind the old Whig party, its Civil War crusade against slavery, its one-family hereditary editorship through Victorian times, and its ultra-conservative woman editor. Nor will Beacon Hill ever live down the day a Brahmin butler announced to madame "three reporters, and a gentleman from the Transcript...
...ball at golf, too: "I have been hankering to take a shot at the Babe ever since I started playing golf. Anywhere, any time, and for any charity." - Having read Novelist John P. Marquand's best-selling H. M. Pulham, Esquire, which pokes chuckle-humored satire at a Beacon Hill Boston now all but dead, William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, complained: "Of course my experience is limited, but I sincerely hope that Bostonians, especially the women, have not degenerated into the type he describes." A few days later the City Council declared that Author Marquand...
...FIRST great local news for Hub art lovers since John Singer Sargent last walked off Beacon Hill happened this week when Francis W. Dahl, the idol of Twentieth Century Brookline, published his first book. But alas and alack, it doesn't measure up to what the artist is worth. Dahl chose for his first little volume his worst representative works, the "Left Handed Compliments" that greeted Harvard's Herald readers when they returned from their Christmas vacations, written after he had broken his right arm in an auto accident...