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...time was when Boston was the Hub of the Universe and ruled with an oriental omnipotence the intellectual life of a continent. Then the Bulfinch drawing-rooms of Beacon Street were more English than Victoria, and the scrubbed and shining faces of the matrons who presided in them were the embodiment of polite and proper learning. And then Harvard was Boston...
...some excitement. Even a little sport plane whizzing in from a pleasure hop makes visitors stand still and watch. At night, the red obstruction lights on outlying buildings and poles, the lower amber lights stretching around the field to mark it for invisible arrivals from the sky, and the beacon revolving like a spotlight groping for the actor, make a big airport such as Floyd Bennett Field into a gigantic theatre where mass drama can take place. There were easily 50,000 people in the audience at Floyd Bennett one night last week, waiting in the stage-like dark...
...world knows about the Boston Athenaeum; few know that non-members are not only allowed, but invited, to push open its massive doors at 10 1-2 Beacon street. It would be a distinct breach to ask to see the famous collection of "scruple" books in which the members dip at will; and you mustn't even cast a longing eye at the Vanity Fairs laid out in the magaxine reading room. The Athenaeum, however, is a place no explorer should miss, even if the glimpse is a brief one, for the Athenaeum is the distilled quintessence of Bostonlanism. Hours...
...Braves Field one can treat his best girl, or all six of them, to a dollar seat on payment of only the ten-cent tax--or the girl(s) can go without masculine escort. In the line of music there will again be the evening concerts at the Beacon playground in Brookline...
...Manhattan, a Mrs. Novick. 250 lb., bought a railroad ticket for nearby Beacon, refused to get off when the train reached Beacon, rode free to Albany. At Albany Detective Harold Collar found her still obstinate, called a physician. The railroad car was hauled to a siding, the physician gave her a hypodermic injection, took her away in an ambulance...