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Class of 1939: Jerome Le R. Abrams, Long Branch, New Jersey; Josef Alexander Brighton; Bernard Barber, Cambridge: Robert H. Goldman, Lowell; Robert E. Lane, New York; Victor A. Lewinson, New York; James R. Muenger, Toledo. Ohio; Leonard K. Nash, New York; Sidney D. Ross, Lynn; Leon N. Satenstein, Malden; Bernard J. Siegel, Superior, Wisconsin; and William Q. Wolfson, Brooklyn...
Dorothea's life was a matter of going to dull parties, visiting the King at Brighton, picking up scraps of gossip, nattering the King's fat mistress, patching up quarrels between, Austrian supporters, suffering boredom, nervousness, tantrums and fears of revolution, then making fun of everybody and everything to Metternich. Because she did so with a mixture of malice, snobbishness, impatience, heartlessness and occasional humdrum housewifely humor, her private letters make a lively book, packed with characterizations that, a novelist could envy. Thus she describes the conversation of her diplomatic rival, the clumsy, ill-favored wife...
...powerful dynamo generating nothing," her crotchets finally became almost surrealistic. She bought a hideous house at Brighton, spent $250,000 to remodel it into something worse. Her gardens were planted with tin and china flowers. She built a staircase of imitation books with joke titles, was delighted to see visitors try to pocket a half crown painted on her doorstep. For house wear her favorite garb was a cheap flannel nightgown, fastened by an emerald and diamond brooch, from which hung a sixpenny police whistle. She had more lawsuits than she could count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half...
...McGillicuddy, of Brighton, said by Yard police to be an habitual drunkard, was arrested late yesterday afternoon in Little Hall...
...Robert H. Sproat, 3d '38, Newton; Elliot G. Strauss '40, Mattapan; Felix F. Stumpf '38, Cambridge; Sidney Sulkin '39, Dorchester; Charles G. Swain '40, Wellaston; Marshall W. Swan '39, Milton; Harold R. Taylor '39, Somerville; John F. Tynan '38, Cambridge; Albert E. Weiner '38, Waltham; Robert E. Wernick '38, Brighton; Frank C. Wheelock Jr. '39, Springfield; Frank S. White, Jr. '39, Mattapoisett...