Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philosophy Professor Alfred North Whitehead once described the Corporation as "a government by seven cousins," because for two centuries a few Boston families regularly have had representatives among the Fellows. Even today the Corporation has three representatives from Beacon Hill, but it also has Clark from New York and Marbury from Baltimore...
...Benchley Festival" accompanies the main feature. To see the comic in "An Evening Alone," "How to Sleep," and "A Night At the Movies" is alone worth a trip to the Beacon Hill...
...been a wonderful, strenuous summer, and 13-year-old Birdsall Sweet was just going into the last half of the eighth grade in Beacon, N.Y. But in September, husky, athletic Birdsall suddenly fell ill. After five days he was admitted to a hospital in Poughkeepsie. Like many another youngster in the epidemic year of 1931, Birdsall Sweet had polio...
Died. Frances Seymour Brokaw Fonda, 42, well-to-do estranged wife of the stage & screen's Henry Fonda (Mister Roberts); by her own hand; in Beacon...
They passed silently, by ones and twos. The crowds began to break up just before a whisper ran down Beacon Street. "Clarence, it's Clarence. Is it Clarence?" Clarence DcMar was coming. The crowd held together for just a few more minutes while the old man puffed by, tired, but smiling. For DcMar the applause was possessive. He turned into the pre-dusk cocktails-and-dinner hour of Commonwealth Avenue, and disappeared between two taxicabs. Behind him, Fred Murphy, a very young man from Dorchester, dragged himself up the next to last hill of the race, the trestle just west...