Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reached the North American finals-and lost each time. "It gets under your skin," he said. Now it looked like it might stay there. Early in the sixth race, he seemed hopelessly behind McNamara. But a wind shift caught McNamara unawares and then, rounding the first mark, the Bostonian and his two-man crew somehow committed the neophyte's gaffe of letting their spinnaker whip into an hourglass snarl. They took 1 min. 30 sec. to unfoul it, and limped in seventh to Cox's sixth. That put Cox only H points behind, 39|-381, and he poured...
...ultimately pays with her life for choosing the wrong husband, Broadway's Joanna Pettet etches a jittery, wounding image of pride slowly strangled. As Libby, the frigid literary snob, Jessica Walter unreels bits of the yarn through hearsay, as only a cat can. As Dottie, a staid Bostonian who decides to let a casual acquaintance seduce her, Joan Hackett intuitively lights up every scene she is in. And Shirley Knight, as Polly, reads gentle truth into every word and gesture. Leading the second rank, Candice Bergen, as the Lesbian "Lakey," is a stunning presence. Most important...
Married. Joan Hackett, 30, rising Broadway comedienne (Peterpat), currently cast as Dottie Renfrew, a Bostonian of uncertain virtue, in the upcoming film version of Mary McCarthy's The Group; and Richard Mulligan, 33, her leading man; he for the second time; in Manhattan...
From his tweeds to his twang, Saltonstall is every inch a Brahmin-the last of the Massachusetts species in high elective office. Tall and erect, with the kind of homeliness that radiates integrity, Salty is famed among Senate colleagues for the Bostonian virtues of unfailing courtesy and caution. On one occasion, when asked by a reporter for his opinion on a foreign policy issue, the taciturn Senator replied: "No comment, and that's off the record...
...years, Publisher George C. Kirstein had been shelling out his own money to keep the liberal weekly Nation alive. As a staffer put it, "It was time for a new charity." Last week James J. Storrow Jr., 49, a Bostonian who has made a small fortune from film and food companies, took over the burden from Kirstein. "The posture of a dissenter is not a profitable one," the new publisher conceded. "One does not grow rich by shooting sacred cows...