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...previous season, however, was a different story. Undaunted by losses to the Staten Island Cricket Club, a team of Bostonian West Indians, and a loss to Princeton, the Crimson came back to crush Yale in the final match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/10/1955 | See Source »

Novelist John P. Marquand's late George Apley, a dedicated Bostonian who liked to watch birds and deplored progress, never had it like this. Beginning last week Boston's bird watchers could get a bulletin on what to look for simply by dialing Kenmore 6-4050. Mrs. Ruth P. Emery, co-editor of Records of New England Birds, asked the telephone company to install an answering machine beside her desk. A recording of the current bulletin, previously made by her, goes over the wire when a call comes in. A tape recorder takes down incoming information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Electronic Chickadee | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...SARGENT'S flickering, passionate portrayal of a Spanish dancer (opposite) is the popular favorite at the nation's most personal great museum. The museum was conceived and built by a wild, plain-faced little redhead named Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924). She has been called the "Improper Bostonian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PUBLIC FAVORITE IN A PALACE | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

According to legend, a very proper New England lady, with an offspring ready for College, once fell into a conversation about education with a non-Bostonian acquaintance...

Author: By Daniel A. Rezneck, | Title: Cornell: One the Ivy League's Frontier | 10/9/1954 | See Source »

...Comstock Commotion, Author Lucius Beebe tells the story of the Territorial Enterprise, which tells the story of the Comstock. Once an Improper Bostonian, Beebe has long been fascinated with the West. In 1951 he settled down in Virginia City, and soon became publisher of the Territorial Enterprise and a full-time Westerner. Now he writes of his new home town with the same purple pen he used to describe Eastern gin-mills for the New York Herald Tribune: "The saloons of Virginia City," he rhapsodizes, "then and now the drinkingest community in all the wide, wonderful, boozy world-what profligate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vintage West | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

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