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...England looked rosy as his view of U.S. art was dim. He had filled the Charles River with a champagne-fizz of sailboats and bright ripples, turned the boxy Suffolk County courthouse into a castle of air, given Boston Harbor's fishing fleet a carnival atmosphere, set Beacon Hill on its ear and made the Georgian brick halls of Harvard dance (see cut). All in all, his Boston pictures were Parisian as ever...
...heary Beacon Hill dame surveyed Boston's historic Common Saturday evening. To a little girl who had just spilt a plate of beans on the historic Mall, she snapped, "You should be ashamed of yourself for making such a mess. Clean it right up." Apparently the spectacle of ten thousand people eating five tons of beans rubbled her sensitively...
Philosophy Professor Alfred North Whitehead once described the Corporation as "a government by seven cousins," because for two centuries a few Boston families regularly have had representatives among the Fellows. Even today the Corporation has three representatives from Beacon Hill, but it also has Clark from New York and Marbury from Baltimore...
...Benchley Festival" accompanies the main feature. To see the comic in "An Evening Alone," "How to Sleep," and "A Night At the Movies" is alone worth a trip to the Beacon Hill...
...been a wonderful, strenuous summer, and 13-year-old Birdsall Sweet was just going into the last half of the eighth grade in Beacon, N.Y. But in September, husky, athletic Birdsall suddenly fell ill. After five days he was admitted to a hospital in Poughkeepsie. Like many another youngster in the epidemic year of 1931, Birdsall Sweet had polio...