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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concerts, very likely the best entertainment in Boston these days, are being given every night except Mondays at 8:30. Every night the range of the music is immense; tonight's program, for example, includes things by Handel and Johann Strauss. To rent a chair costs a dime, but if you're healthy or sensible, or both, you'll pay nothing and lie on the grass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 7/3/1947 | See Source »

...mean me. Why I'm here to study, of course," she lisped, regaining a fierce grip on the collected works of Havelock Ellis.Bitter bear alone: What man will fill the empty chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Reenforcements Roll In | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

Last week Arpad was not even waiting for Tildy to get out of the barber's chair. Arpad was making discreet inquiries at a Western European legation in Budapest. He wanted to know if the legation would give him political asylum in event of "a radical deterioration of the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Next! | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Revolutionary South (The First Americans, The Founding of American Civilisation, etc.) gave U.S. history students one of their liveliest and most authoritative pictures of the Cavalier tradition, the manners & morals, art & architecture of Colonial America. Wertenbaker was twice appointed to Oxford's honored Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Chair of American History. His advice to students: "Teacher says Shakespeare was a great dramatist; question it. Teacher says Jamestown was the birthplace of the nation; question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Time to Retire | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...hardly more graceful as a writer. Aloysius ("Moon") Gaffney is no anti-Semitic bullyboy like Tommy Gallagher, but a young Manhattan Irishman with a Fordham law degree and large horizons. With luck he will soon become an Assemblyman in Albany, and perhaps in time even sit in the big chair in New York's City Hall. He has brains, good looks, Irish wit and good Tammany connections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moon's Progress | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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