Word: bostonianism
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Died. George Whitney, 77, financier, knowledgeable partner of J. P. Morgan between the wars and first president of J. P. Morgan, Inc. from 1940 to 1950, a polished Bostonian who came out of investigations into the stock market crash with a clean slate (unlike his brother Richard, former president of the Stock Exchange, who was convicted of embezzlement), after World War II started Morgan on diversification that led to its 1959 merger with Guaranty Trust; of a pulmonary emphysema (see MEDICINE); in Manhattan...
...Bostonian rectitude may account for the absence of any seasonal letdown in the quality of the Boston Symphony. What makes Tanglewood a model festival is that the orchestra's tone and attack are kept as finely manicured as the grounds...
...Jazz." One of the faces was not so new--that of Howard McGhee, who was an important bop trumpeter in the late forties and has returned from the living death of narcotics to resume his place in the jazz world. McGhee's quartet includes a 19-year-old Bostonian, Phil Porter, whose bluesy, rocking organ mixes perfectly, with McGhee's completely honest horn. Unlike so many musicians who wander aimlessly through a solo, McGhee plays solos which are each a single coherent message simply and forthrightly expressed...
...Appeared with Evangelist Billy Graham, Vice President Johnson, and House Speaker John McCormack before more than 1,000 persons at the annual presidential prayer breakfast. The President recalled some Episcopal eloquence by "my fellow Bostonian," the Rev. Phillips Brooks (1835-93): "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks...
...vast majority of CRIMSON editors became neither journalists nor professors. Two (JFK and FDR) became President. F.A.O. Schwarz '24 manufactures toys, David Rockefeller '36 runs a bank, Cleveland Amory '39 is a proper Bostonian, Robert F. Bradford '23 served as Governor of. Massachusetts, and Laurence D. Savadove '53 writes novels...