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...undergraduate friend of ours came around the other day looking awfully sheepish. He admits that he was under the old influence, but that doesn't completely take the ignominy from spending three hours in a Beacon Hill manhole. It might even have been four, for all he knows...
...friend of ours came around the other day looking awfully sheepish. He admits right off that he was under the old influence, but that doesn't completely take the ignominy from spending three hours in a Beacon Hill manhole. It might even have been four, for all he knows...
...screamed. A kind old lady with a dog heard him, and before his head cleared there was a big red truck, and ladders, and a rope. He reports that what hurt most was his rescuers' benevolent sneers; he swears he's learned his lesson and will never go near Beacon Hill again...
...Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions started from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, ended in musical vigils in Brattle Street, Brookline, Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill. Legend says one session ended in a musical salute to a Harvard president's daughter while she was in labor pains...
Late in the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Briggsy was writing a letter from the Leverett home #n Beacon Street. Jim had just received Back Bay's accolade in Symphony Hall, where he had spoken about "the pattern of freedom, the quality of integrity, and the brand of honor which have been yours-and mine." He was out for a bitter, retrospective walk along the Esplanade, where he and Mary, 20 years ago, had seen his future so clearly, when Briggsy concluded...