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Winston Churchill, it appeared, might have yet another blaze of glory. A citizen of Margate proposed a skyscraping statue of Britain's great war leader on the white cliffs of Dover, "illuminated day and night." Its beacon: Churchill's cigar...
...aisle and put a fold in the whalebone corset of someone's spinster aunt. Not since Stinky and Shorty pervaded the atmosphere of the Old Howard has this Hub sniffed anything resembling Lahr's patter, and not since Margie Hart twisted her ankle on a faulty runway have Beacon Hill Burghers seen-even on the sly-a morsel like Irene Allarie, who bumps her svelte way through a colorful unveiling that is guaranteed to wilt even the stiffest of straw hats among the Summer Theatre...
Ever since John P. Marquand discovered that there was a gold mine on Beacon Hill, books on Boston and Harvard have been hitting the stands with monotonous regularity. Last year's pseudo-Marquand, "Boston Adventure," was a very poor piece of goods, as most imitations are. But the latest effort, Helen Howe's "We Happy Few," is several cuts above its predecessors. Showing a speaking acquaintance with the Beacon Street-Brattle Street axis, Miss Howe's special target is the Cambridge cocktail crowd, the effete, hyper-esthetical group which knows all there is to know about Sex, Marxism...
This particular rocket was not allowed to rise as high as possible (some 120 miles) or to reach its full horizontal range (230 miles). Its only payload: a radar beacon, to make it easier to track, and an assortment of dummy instruments, for crash survival tests. But the Army has more V-25, most of them now being assembled by General Electric Co. from captured German parts. It plans to fire them one a week. They will shoot higher and farther, and will carry elaborate instruments to report by radio every detail of their performance...
From Radios to Real Estate. During the depression Henderson & Moore got into another new thing-real estate. With $10,000 worth of World Radio stock as capital, they bought control of Beacon Participations Inc., an investment-trust, used its cash to buy property cheap. In five years they controlled $30,000,000 worth of real estate, including Cambridge's Hotel Continental, which they bought at auction. They liked this taste of the hotel business. So in 1939 they bought control of Boston's swank Copley Plaza and Sheraton, both of which were losing money. Henderson admitted that...