Word: beacons
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...Steve Dallas subplot from an infamous episode in the lives of Winchell and his daughter Walda. (Walda Winchell - how's that for ego extension?) To judge from Neil Gabler's account in his excellent biography, "Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity," Bill Cahn was no apple-cheeked beacon of cool jazz and high ethics. He was a hustler who had done time for vagrancy and petty larceny, was busted for going AWOL during the War and was discharged after being diagnosed with severe hysteria...
Public Garden (Corner of Beacon Street and Charles Street...
...Lowell carried weight with me. I grew up in Lowell's principal suburb, Chelmsford, mowing the local church lawn in summer for extra money, going on Catholic Youth Organization ski trips with Father Coughlin in winter. I knew of famous St. Patrick's, which rises like a beacon in the city's poorest section, a tenement-filled neighborhood called the Acre. On the cold but sunny Thursday when I visited Father Spagnolia, the front doors of St. Patrick's were decorated with multicolored and multilingual posters: INNOCENT UNTIL PROVED GUILTY UNLESS ORDAINED IN BOSTON and CHUNG CON LUON...
Aside from the fertility clinic’s requirement that donors be Ivy Leaguers, Harvard itself has very little to do with the book’s plot. There is enough of Boston thrown in to make the setting recognizable—a little Beacon Hill, a little Boston Common—but the book could just have easily been set at any other prestigious coed university with cash-desperate grad students...
Even if Stein gets the necessary number of qualifying contributions, she may have more difficulty in getting public funds, as controversy over Clean Elections continues to swirl around Beacon Hill...