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...refreshing to see the poise these models have," was the assertion of white-haired Joseph Champagne, Beacon Hill dancing instructor and a sort of unhurried Arthur Murray, as he sat down to become the third male in the distaff sea. A tardy fourth, orchestra leader Vaughn Monroe added a touch of glamour as he assumed his place with "Yeah, but they should put price tags on the dresses. They did at the one I judged at the Stork Club...
Said shaggy Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, as he presented the research award to Dr. Houssay in Boca Raton: "We regret that a few myopic citizens in our sister Republic of Argentina have tried to black out the Houssay scientific beacon at Buenos Aires. But the Houssay beacon still guides and cheers many workers on the frontiers of biology and medicine in every land...
...will send a speaker to each of the College Houses next week, to outline the issue involved and give the committee's reasons for fighting the labor curbs. Students will receive briefs of the measures now pending in Washington and on Beacon Street, and will be urged to write informed letters of protest to their own Congressmen and Senators...
...into an inscrutable New England patriarch (the play) and now into a harmless old crone whose inner conflict is no greater than the woes of a lovelorn son and daughter. Not only is George Apley altered to fit the needs of non-New England audiences, but the aura of Beacon Hill and Louisburg Square is wrenched out of reality and transformed into a cross between a high-mannered Bedlam and meeting night at the Witch-Burners' Society...
...peculiar makeup of the electorate forestalls any large scale action or indignation. The great middle class, always the backbone of reform movements, has deserted the city for the cleaner suburbs with attractive school systems and play space for its children. Left behind to vote in the metropolis is the Beacon Street Brahmin class, snowed under, as Lyons puts it, by the clannishness of the low income groups...