Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never underestimate the power of bird lovers. Last week the management of Manhattan's 1,472-ft. Empire State Building announced that out of respect for migrating birds and the National Audubon Society, it has doused the building's stationary beacon, and will keep it doused until Nov. 1, when most of the feathered friends are safe in their winter resorts...
...loving Maggie Fraser comes from the socially acceptable environs of Beacon Hill, with Faneuil blue blood on her mother's side. Maggie herself is bouncy and bossy enough to have been a queen bee at Vassar ('22). She is no beauty, but to some masculine eyes she flashes with the radiance of a "Fourth-of-July sparkler." From Vassar. Maggie marches forth to conquer Broadway, and is so chagrined by her failure that she quickly settles for marriage to Dexter Bradfield, 6 ft. 2 of Harvard muscle and inarticulateness...
Before he reached 35, Copley was a rich man, with three houses and 20 acres of land on Beacon Hill, and a Tory heiress wife. His humble beginnings and high achievements gave him friends on both sides of the political fence...
...practically everybody knows, One Summer of Happiness contains a nude bathing scene that has heated the blood of various American censors. The Swedish movie opened in Boston in its original form, but sure enough, several days later its scenario was discreetly "edited," while in the Beacon Hill's newspaper advertisements Kirsten, the young heroine, suddenly acquired a bathing suit. The cutting has not hurt the film much, but of course it was stupid and unnecessary. In either of its versions, One Summer of Happiness is restrained, beautiful, and totally lacking in offensiveness. It displays infinitely better artistic taste than...
...greatest progress has come in a land not otherwise noted for its leadership in the world of art: the U.S. From Beacon Hill to Nob Hill, modern architecture has squalled and tottered through its awkward, unruly, early years, but it has begun-if only begun-to mature. In Paris, architectural students eagerly follow the new work of younger U.S. architects with all the fervor that Left Bank jazz addicts reserve for Dizzy Gillespie and Satchmo Armstrong. Said a young French architect: "When we have a chance to see what your architects are doing, we have a picture of what...