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...travels up & down the street of that name, a famous one in Boston, in a narrative streetcar named Desire, or Social Betterment, or Motherhood, or Good Business, or God Bless America-the name changes so often that a passenger is never quite sure. On Joy Street's fashionable Beacon Hill rise lives Emily Field, a young society woman with "charm and vivacity enough to hold her own at a Hasty Pudding Club dance or a Beck [an uppercrust Harvard dormitory] spread." Woe is Emily; these enviable talents are spent on a proper Bostonian whom she married "to be peaceful...
...Capp's journeys to New York are basically vacation trips. When it is time to begin producing fresh chapters in the lives of Li'l Abner and his colleagues, he retires to a big, handsomely furnished apartment on Boston's Beacon Street. One of its back rooms-a bare-walled hideaway fitted up with three drawing boards-is the workroom in which Capp and two longtime assistants, Andy Amato and Walter Johnston, grind out the installments of their never-ending serial...
...Beacon Lights. Two hours before midnight on Oct. 11, Columbus saw from the poop of his Santa Maria a far-off light waxing & waning in the dark. Searching for an explanation, Berrill points out that the light could not have come from San Salvador. That island was too far off (about 50 miles) when Columbus sang out. Nor could it have come from a native canoe. Berrill thinks it came from a colony of 1-2 in. sea worms which live among the rocky reefs of the Bahamas and shed their eggs near the sea's surface with...
...Phantom of the Opera" is at the Beacon Hill too, and it is hopelessly outclassed. It is an occasionally (if unintentionally) funny movie, and there is a nifty scene in which Claude Rains drops a chandelier on the enthusiastic audience at the Paris Opera. This stops the show...
...Dewey and Joe Hanley trooped arm in arm through a clutter of cheering delegates, falling confetti and exploding balloons. The Governor himself nominated Joe Hanley for Senator; Hanley reciprocated by nominating Tom Dewey, "a beacon light on a stormy shore-steady, clear, unwavering...