Word: bostonianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Active head of M.I.T. is Merrill Griswold, a 50-year-old Boston lawyer who married a Lowell. There are two other trustees and a five-man advisory board, heavily Harvard, predominantly Bostonian. Leading the board's list is Charles Francis Adams, great-great-great-grandson of the second President of the U. S.. Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Navy and reputedly the richest member of his ancient family. Another is Roger Amory. the philosophical president of Consolidated Investment Trust. He lists his hobbies as books, walks and lying in the sun. wrote for his 25th Harvard...
Trusts in all their variations are woven into the whole fabric of Boston life. A Bostonian who is not either a beneficiary or trustee of at least one personal trust fund is liable to find himself at a distinct social disadvantage. Boston is the home of the oldest investment trust in the U. S.-Boston Personal Property Trust, founded in 1893. Boston is also the home of the open-end or mutual general management trust, which is usually called the "Boston-type trust...
...doctor-inventor became so engrossed in his air-conditioning that he gave up medical practice to push his ice machines. An agent appointed in Manhattan accomplished little or nothing. Almost penniless, Dr. Gorrie went to New Orleans for backing, found a Boston man who bought half the project. The Bostonian died. Unable to interest anyone else, Dr. Gorrie went back to Apalachicola, secluded himself, brooded, sickened, died...
...FLOWERS-Judith Kelly- Harper ($2). In this provocative first novel, Author Kelly presents with earnestness and frequently with hysteria the dilemma of a beautiful young Bostonian who enjoys her wealth but deplores its implications. Author Kelly has an irritating trick of bearing down on her favorite adjectives: The heroine is "sleek," "sly," "vivid" and "expensive...
...Wing's Fort" is a Boston nickname for the bulging limestone edifice of First National Bank. Inside, the building has more the air of a cathedral. Although descended from Puritan stock, Board Chairman Daniel Gould Wing is no Bostonian. He got his start as a messenger boy in Lincoln, Neb. Arriving in Boston as a bank examiner in 1899, he stayed to become president of the Massachusetts National Bank. When that bank merged with First National, he became president, later board chairman. Last week, at 67, Mr. Wing retired because of poor health. Bernard Walton Trafford, vice chairman, stepped...