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...multi-millionaire wildcatter Glenn McCarthy could heat a city the size of Omaha with no help at all. Whether he would allow his rampant psyche to be dedicated completely to so prosaic a project, however, is doubtful-several million cubic feet would undoubtedly be diverted to a McCarthy Memorial Beacon which would nightly cast its glare as far west as El Paso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...others: the Akron Beacon-Journal, the Miami Herald, the Detroit Free Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Across the broad, rich land, people also wrapped and sealed their own packages for relatives in the Old Country, or for old acquaintances from old vacation trips, or for strangers whose names they had got by chance. A portly gentleman on Boston's Beacon Hill sent off a consignment of Havana cigars to Britain. In Chicago Mrs. Herman Pierce was preparing a Christmas parcel for the daughter of her late father's niece in Germany. Mrs. Pierce and her factory-worker husband were not well off. But "we can do without a little," she explained, "to help them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: All on Earth Together | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Stay-at-homes will be able to participate in Beacon Hill carol singing and visit the Ice Capades, Gardner Museum, John Hancock building, Ford Motor Factory, Christian Science Monitor, and other points of interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Students Get Xmas Treat | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...with performances of portions of Haydn's Creation and Handel's Messiah. Boston also boasted a club unique in the U.S. Ten or twelve times a year, as their ancestors have done since 1837, members of the exclusive Harvard Musical Association go to their paneled clubrooms on Beacon Hill for a smoker of chamber music, beans, beer and Welsh rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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