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...beauty. As a man. he had a hankering for beauties. He had married one (Mary Storer Potter) in 1831, but she died four years later while they were traveling in Holland. Only months had passed when, in Switzerland, he met statuesque Fanny Appleton. a proper Bostonian of 19 whose wealth and social position matched her looks and charm. His grief notwithstanding, the young (29) widower wasted little time. They talked and walked by the Rhine, Longfellow reading poetry aloud as he plodded along behind her. He was not yet the gentle greybeard whom every U.S. child would associate with Hiawatha...
Boston's sickly, 125-year-old Post made news each morning last week simply by coming out. Though the Post itself printed not a line about its ordeal, no well-informed Bostonian would have been surprised to see the paper collapse or pass suddenly into new hands. The daily was in an almost comic mess−creditors swarming, funds attached, payroll delayed, newsprint delivered only for hard cash, and negotiations begun for a distress sale...
Setting his Homburg square on his head, a heavy-set Bostonian named William Elaine Richardson departed one day last week for his office, the main Mexico City branch of the First National City Bank of New York. As usual, there was a brisk flutter of papers and a businesslike reaching for telephones when he arrived; Richardson maintains the no-nonsense tra dition of banking, runs his office with taut efficiency. But on that day last week there was more than routine importance to his arrival. It was his last; at 65, the banker who opened First National City...
Helmore's realization at the end of the play that there are worse things in life than an untouched debutante seems quite convincing. His problem with accent is alarming; allegedly proper Bostonian and Harvardian, his dialect would place him somewhere between Trafalgar Square and Whitehall. But he is agreeably suave, unfaltering, and journalistic. Inger Stevens, the innocent partner, is difficult to confine on one theatre stage. While she must be obstreperous, she loses control completely. She is pretty, though, and in frank talk with Helmore is quite expressive. G. Albert Smith, as her father, has lost all Southern restraint...
...second line, bolstered by Dick Fischer, sole non-Bostonian from Buffalo, N.Y., seems equally productive as the first. Gordon Marlow, Dave Vietz, and Flscher rate the Yardling's hardest shots, and the latter two, in White's estimation, are the fastest skaters...