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...excellent cover story on an excellent actress-Sandy Dennis [Sept. 1]. Aside from her abundant talent, it is reassuring to know that there are those in an often maligned profession who refuse to demean either themselves or their vocations by using popular opinion as a constant beacon. Mrs. Mulligan serves as a rare illustration of the fact that those with sufficient will, intelligence, sensitivity and courage have little need to compromise themselves to succeed...
...House, which functions mainly as a Unitarian-Universalist church. Located at 70 Charles Street, the building is a handsome brick one in the Federalist style; erected in 1807, it was designed by Asher Benjamin (1773-1845), who was responsible for the even more impressive Old West Church and several Beacon Hill houses as well, and was Boston's foremost architectural contemporary of the great Charles Bul-finch...
Also on view are two versions of the Civil Rights Bill that Congress passed and President Grant signed into law in 1875. And there is material concerning Dr. John V. DeGrasse, an 1849 graduate of Bowdoin Medical School who set up an office at 17 Poplar Street on Beacon Hill, was in 1854 the first Negro to be admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society, and later served as an assistant surgeon in the Union army...
...Hicks. Another strong candidate is Massachusetts Secretary of State Kevin White, a man of honest Irish antecedents though he has, as they say in the lace-curtained flats of South Boston, "turned blue"-i.e., taken to mixing with the Yankee aristocracy. But both Logue and White will probably lose Beacon Hill and Back Bay votes, which they badly need, to Harvard-educated Rhodes Scholar John Sears, the first Republican who has had the temerity to run for mayor of Boston in 18 years...
...BostonTranscript, voice of the Beacon Hill Brahmins, was badly hurt in the depression, yet its publisher dragged on until 1941. Finally, but only after months of pathetic appeals for financial aid (some of which actually appeared in the Transcript), the paper went under. In 1956, the Boston post, the strident and powerful voice of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts and once the nation's third largest paper, died. ThePost's publisher, John Fox, so firmly believed in the Post's importance as the Democratic standard bearer that he twice managed to revive the paper, in one case after it hadn...