Word: broughams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night in 1914, fire broke out in College Hall. By morning, the hall ("a palace!" a visiting male had observed) was a ruin. In its place rose modern Wellesley. Stately President Ellen Fitz Pendleton and her electric brougham were succeeded by trim Mildred McAfee Horton and her Pontiac. When President Horton, wartime head of the Navy's WAVES, resigned last year to help her husband, the Rev. Douglas Horton, with his work for the Congregational Christian Churches, Wellesley went looking for a Margaret Clapp...
...corned-up flights of prose, which his readers like, but a long list of good works had won small, brassy-voiced Royal Brougham the bronze plaque which usually goes to the city's biggest industrialists, philanthropists, and men-about-culture. Brougham had fought long, loudly and effectively for bigger & better playgrounds as "living memorials" to the dead of World War II, "instead of statues of some guy sitting on an iron horse." His wartime promotions had raised $250,000 for servicemen's recreation...
...sometimes, on out-of-town trips, writes their stuff for them when they get plastered. Six days a week he eyes the sports field once over lightly, knocks out a chatty, chummy column called the Morning After. At the small Dunlap Baptist Church, in a rundown part of town, Brougham teaches a Sunday school class of 35 teenagers. They come partly for the Bible lessons, partly to meet the guest stars their teacher hauls in from the sports world...
...Brougham started on the P-I as a $6-a-week "copy boy in knee pants, worked up to sports editor by 1919; six years later a Hearst troubleshooter arrived in town, fired the managing editor, gave Brougham...
Forgotten Man. "At first it wasn't so bad'" says Brougham, "because Hearst forgot he had a Seattle paper. I threw his editorials on the floor and ran local stuff. . . ." In 1929 Hearst remembered, and Brougham went back to sports-but at a bigger salary than his successor...