Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon last week, Professor Matthiessen made his way downtown and engaged a room on the twelfth floor of the Manger, a commercial hotel next door to Boston's North Station. That evening he went out to dinner at the Beacon Hill home of his old friend, Professor Kenneth B. Murdock. Though their talk was mostly of books and poetry, Matthie seemed unusually depressed. About 11:30 he said goodbye. Shortly afterward he got to his room in the downtown hotel, spread out a note to whom it might concern. "I have taken this room in order to do what...
...most cops, his standard is modest, considering his income. In Manhattan he has a cluttered two-room penthouse suite at the middle-class Lexington Hotel. His Texas-born, blonde wife Mary, who was originally an NBC secretary in Washington, lives in a ten-room brick and stone house called Beacon Hill Farms on Catoctin Ridge in northern Virginia. With her are the children: daughter Pat, 7; Arthur Jr., 9; and 20-year-old Dick, the son of Arthur's first marriage. The farm's 700 acres are stocked with white-face Hereford cattle and Arabian horses which...
Cleveland Amory has moved his satirical talents from Beacon Bill to the New York publishing business, and the result in a humorous novel that wonderfully lampoons the methods of the book-selling world...
...multi-millionaire wildcatter Glenn McCarthy could heat a city the size of Omaha with no help at all. Whether he would allow his rampant psyche to be dedicated completely to so prosaic a project, however, is doubtful-several million cubic feet would undoubtedly be diverted to a McCarthy Memorial Beacon which would nightly cast its glare as far west as El Paso...
...others: the Akron Beacon-Journal, the Miami Herald, the Detroit Free Press...