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...Puritan's Progress" unfolds the plight of an "A" student who falls into the toils of a buxom Dorchester lass. To be blunt, and the play is, he has to marry her. To his rescue comes Uncle Joe Whipple, erstwhile Beacon Hill Harvardian who has spent his post-college life in the Yukon. Uncle Joe lays $50,000 in gold on the line if young Whipple gets kicked out and marries Dorchester's Polly Dugan. Whip tries hard, aided by his room-mates. But something always comes up to change the whole aspect of his misdemeanors...
...undergraduates in the House. The play was submitted in competition with several professional works and won handily. Its plot deals with the tribulations of an undergraduate who is promised $50,000 if he can get himself "bounced" out of Harvard. His attempts at dismissal involve a maid from Beacon Hill a maid from Charlestown, and a maid...
...Beacon Hill drawing room one Saturday afternoon in 1893 an awed young man was introduced in a loud voice to a tiny, asthmatic, homely oldster. The young man was Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, 29, recently made assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly. The old man was Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, wittiest man of his day, unofficial Boston poet laureate, last surviving petal of the literary flowering of New England. By the next autumn, feeling "like my own survivor," Dr. Holmes had died quietly at 85 in his armchair. It was their only meeting. But of the next New England literary...
Acquitted of manslaughter, he was transferred to Oklahoma City to edit the Oklahoma News. But the shock of the killing had dimmed some of Crusader Magee's fire, and after the death of old E. W., the Scripps beacon no longer shone so brightly. Editor Magee quit in 1933 to market a parking meter he had invented...
Immediately letters of advice began pouring into the Beacon Journal's office. Last week Sunday Editor B. E. Maidenburg announced that the total to date was 450. Advice...