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Word: boston (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airways. "I knew about the audience," Mr. MacLeish reported later. "But I guess the first time I was really knocked over was then." In a tense hush, Garroway read aloud the considered judgement of the dean of theatrical journalists and single most commercially powerful critic in New York or Boston, Brooks Atkinson (Harvard, '17) of the New York Times: "One of the memorable works of the century as verse, as drama and as spiritual inquiry ... magnificent ... In every respect J.B. is theatre on its highest level ... a stark portrait of ourselves composed by a man of intellect, faith and literary...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: MacLeish's 'J. B.': A Review of Reviews | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

...suggested charities" this year are Phillips Brooks House, the Boston United Fund, Crusade for Freedom, World University Service, Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students...

Author: By Carl I. Gable jr., | Title: Charities Drive to Begin Monday With Bundy Addressing Banquet | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

Both museums at Harvard can be proud of these well-selected exhibits. There is nothing now being shown in Boston that can surpass them...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Two University Exhibits | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

...Boston, quiet Bill Russell practiced his weak shooting eye, said nothing, and waited for the big day when the Warriors came to town. Last weekend in the Boston Garden, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain met for their first official contest in the N.B.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Man to Man | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...Boston cigarmaker, Revson moved to New Hampshire with his family, and, after graduating from high school, went to Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to work in a relative's textile business. He picked up savvy about fashions, learned many a lesson in feminine psychology. Revson noticed that women's nail polish was poor, unimaginative, and marketed as if it were kitchen paint. He decided to cash in on this failing by setting up his own business when he was only 25, got Chemist Friend Charles Lachman (represented by the L in Revlon) to turn out new attractive enamels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Unflabbergasted Genius | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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