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DIED. Mary Parkman Peabody, 89, doughty Boston Brahmin civil rights activist who was arrested in 1964 at age 72 for leading a demonstration in St. Augustine, Fla., while her son Endicott Peabody was Governor of Massachusetts; of heart failure; in Cambridge, Mass...
Born to a Boston Brahmin family, Smith learned to love California while wintering there as a boy. After graduating from U.C.L.A. and Harvard Law School ('42) and a stint in the Navy, he decided to practice law in California. "I wasn't going to be dictated to by my ancestors," he says. "I came to Los Angeles principally because that was the place where things were going to happen." He specialized in handling labor matters for corporate clients. Though a forceful negotiator, he won the respect of his adversaries. Says William Robertson, executive secretary of the Los Angeles...
...appearance, livability and general ambiance, few locales can top this soft pretzel of a city. (Typical of Boston arrogance, Hub natives think they invented mustard and soft pretzels. Wrongo, Brahmin-breath. The combo was born here...
...them. The power plant, at a cost of more than $230 million, was already the single most expensive project ever undertaken by any university--and Harvard's officials were still struggling to settle long-term financing. For four years, Harvard had been paying through the nose for the best Brahmin lawyers it could find--and the state's petty bureaucrats still stubbornly refused to let Harvard run the plant the way it wanted...
...blue wave." She chainsmoked Havana cigars in public. Her greatest offenses, though, seemed to be her ambition to become educated and to gain respect as a poetess--two things unspeakably improper for a woman in the early twentieth century, especially for one of Amy Lowell's wealthy Boston Brahmin caste. Despite her gigantic dimensions, Amy Lowell was still a debutante, and as such, was expected to marry, raise a family, and join her contemporaries in the local sewing circle and in their fashionable charity balls. That Army Lowell would have none of it is a tribute to her superior mind...