Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, in a neat black suit and chic red velvet coat, Reporter Mary McGrory finished a survey of political races in New England and New York. As always, t her copy twinkled brightly in the Star (circ. 266,414). In her home town of Boston, she watched the pols stand "cigar-to-cigar" to cheer Mr. Truman; in New York she noted that ardent Campaigner Nelson Rockefeller "plunges into a crowd as into a warm bath," and referred to Rockefeller and Governor Averell Harriman as "two millionaires tramping the streets begging for work." Reading her stories. Political Reporter Carroll...
Politics has attracted Mary since her girlhood in Boston ("You heard politics from the time you were five"). She graduated from Boston's Roman Catholic Emmanuel College in 1939 with a B.A. in English ("no honors"), got a job cropping pictures for Houghton Mifflin Co. at $16.50 a week. In 1942 she went to work for the Boston Herald as a secretary, wrote an occasional book review so well that she was hired for the book page of the Star in 1947. Mary liked books (she still does some reviewing), but the city room fascinated...
...Isabella Stewart Gardner of Boston was a plain Jane with weird endearing ways. All men were apparently fascinated by her. To Bernard Berenson, who constantly advised her on what to buy, she was "the Serpent of the Charles [River]." To T. Jefferson Coolidge she was "Aphrodite with a lining of Athene." Henry James wrote to her about "those evenings at your board and in your box, those tea-times in your pictured halls [which] flash again in my mind's eye as real life-saving stations." To her patient husband she was simply "Busy Ella...
...Gardner made it her business to set Boston impolitely on its ear. Such a concentric society, she reasoned, would appreciate eccentricity. She chartered a locomotive for a picnic, led a lion on a leash, drank beer at "pop" concerts, and once, during Lent, donned sackcloth and scrubbed the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent. Meanwhile she kept buying pictures, and putting her servants on short rations so that she could do it. Her greatest caprice, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a Venetian palazzo on The Fenway in the midst of Boston, containing some of the world...
Home Before Dark (Warner). "Charlotte, you know you shouldn't have coffee on an empty stomach." "Charlotte, you really do smoke too much." "Charlotte, you look so tired. Do go take a nap now." "Charlotte, we simply have to go to Boston and get you some decent clothes." Charlotte (Jean Simmons) has just come home from a mental hospital, where she has spent a year and undergone eight applications of electroshock, and her stepmother (Mabel Albertson) is determined to do her duty by the unfortunate creature-no matter how unpleasant it may be for both of them...