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...young (30) Cleveland Amory, a Social Registerite himself, has set out to examine his peers. The book is the first of a series which Button will publish about U.S. society (others to come: New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Santa Fe). Culled largely from First Family writings and conversations with Beacon Hill contemporaries, Amory's smoothly phrased findings are not likely to ruffle the poise of the Cabots and the Lowells. Still, many a less proper Bostonian will find much here to delight him. Says Amory: "Besides not being Mayflower-descended, Boston's First Families of today are, with...
...Puritan, which boasts Wellesley approval and the Sheraton have only doubles and suites for the clash with the Indians. Over on Beacon Street playing host to the Dartmouth squad itself, the Bellevne reports some openings for October 25, and plenty of rooms for the Rutgers and Princeton games...
...eleven men who line up against the Crimson at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon will be drawn from a huge and sprawling University of 25,725 students whose seven undergraduates and five graduate schools dot the entire Boston area all the way from Beacon Hill to the Harvard Square area...
...they did not mark an airport. One of them was the pilot flame in a squat, chimney-like waste-gas furnace, set in a field of oil and gas storage tanks owned by the Colonial Beacon Oil Co. As the plane glided in, it narrowly missed the great, fog-shrouded tanks. A little way beyond, it hit the soft chimney a few feet from the top, disintegrated, threw one body between the chimney's two walls and hurled the others into the pilot flame at the bottom of the pit. Workmen reached through trap doors with steel hooks...
France, so often a beacon of Western civilization, was sunk in torpor. Silly fads, from existentialism to intimatism, ruffled the scum at the surface of French thought...