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When a native son leaves for Harvard, the folks back home are in constant fear that he will return with the above characteristics plus the additional herrer of a proper Bostonian accent. Of course, he never does adopt any of these features for he knows it would mean complete social ostracism...
...Bostonian and a graduate of Harvard, where he made freshman letters in football, and track, Joe Spang, now 54, got his start shaving hogs for Swift & Co. He was Swift's vice president in charge of sales when Gillette hired him away in 1938 at $45,000 a year (present salary...
...Lamar, that tall Southern gentleman who exhorts his charges with an intense, pleasant voice blending a Dixie drawl and Bostonian, it is that kind of exhibition that makes his task worthwhile. "It's a tremendous thrill to see the boys you've coached as Freshmen make good," he beams. An unusually high percentage of Lamar-coached footballers have received letters in their sophomore year...
...With un-Bostonian enthusiasm, the Atlantic Monthly had beaten the drum for its 90th anniversary number: "No night fireworks over the lagoon, no drum majorettes, trotting races or paper hats. Nary a clam will be baked. Just a slightly fatter than usual issue filled . . . with a rich assortment of good reading. . . . Otherwise, it will be the same kind of supernormal, extraordinary, quite-without-precedent, all-time-high collection that the subscribers get in the mail every month...
...Proper Bostonians, young (30) Cleveland Amory, a Social Registerite himself, has set out to examine his peers. The book is the first of a series which Button will publish about U.S. society (others to come: New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Santa Fe). Culled largely from First Family writings and conversations with Beacon Hill contemporaries, Amory's smoothly phrased findings are not likely to ruffle the poise of the Cabots and the Lowells. Still, many a less proper Bostonian will find much here to delight him. Says Amory: "Besides not being Mayflower-descended, Boston's First Families of today...