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Every city has areas which are despair of the modern-minded civic engineer. Boston is no exception, for Beacon Hill has long and stoutly resisted attempts to remodel it in the prevailing fashion. At the center of this placid conservatism lies Louisburg Square. A fences oblong of greenery flanked by two rows of red brick Bulfinch Houses, the square lies between Pinckney and Mount Vernon Streets on the river side of Beacon Hill...
...Along with papers around Manhattan, and such other dailies as the Los Angeles Herald & Express, New Orleans Item, Wichita Beacon, Boston Traveler and Record...
...maintained three standards: first, a teacher must be able to instruct and investigate without pressure or censorship, whether subtle or otherwise, from Harvard's officialdom; second, no decision involving official action on a man's career should in any way depend on the politics and publicity generated in Washington, Beacon Hill, or elsewhere; and lastly, no special conditions, other than those involving fitness to teach, should be created for members of the faculty because teachers should have precisely the same rights as are common to all Americans...
...play called My Brother's Keeper which had for its dramatic finale an identical GCA landing of a Marine night fighter in Korea. This was not a coincidence, for the play had been written by Captain Hill, who was an actor (Walk East on Beacon) in civilian life. Hill also got leave from his Marine base at Edenton. N.C., to play the part of a newspaper correspondent (the only non-Marine role in the 20-man cast) in his own real-life drama, which happened last fall...
Somehow the Brahmins of Beacon Hill who run this place seem to have been particularly adept at picking Presidents in the past; why not give them another chance? H. E. Heinemann...