Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evan Turner of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Thomas Messer of the Guggenheim were here, and so were Perry Rathbone of the BFMA and Charles Buckley of the City Art Museum of St. Louis. A dance band played, but most of the black-tie crowd preferred just to chat, drifting at times through the first floor galleries which had been set aside for "Purchases of Two Decades"--an exhibit honoring John Coolidge '35, resigning as director of the Fogg after 20 years...
...gloom couldn't be put out of mind. Some two weeks before the Princeton game, President Roosevelt, in a Fireside Chat, announced that he would shortly ask Congress to lower the draft age to 18. Several days before that, James Conant called for the "conversion" of Harvard to war-time status. According to his plan, soon to be adopted in modified form, Harvard and the other Ivy schools would cease providing "college" educations altogether, and devote themselves exclusively to training local high school graduates for Army and Navy duty...
About the only chagrined man at the auction was Boston Real Estate Dealer Mark Gibbons, 41, who had put on the block the massive yellow and black 1937 Rolls-Royce Sedanca de Ville used by Goldfinger in the James Bond movie. Gibbons bought it when, after a fenderside chat, he asked the owner to start it up-and found it was already running. But last week bids failed to meet Gibbons' reserve price of $11,000, which leaves him with a problem. "You can't drive it in the daytime," he says. "It attracts too much attention...
...good citizens of Tarbox accept health, wealth and wisdom as natural perquisites of their membership in the American middle class. Tarbox is a fun place too. Almost any Sunday, one can find a bunch of the fellows tossing around a basketball in somebody's driveway, while the women chat and watch and the children scramble and squabble. There's likely to be a spirited game of tennis at John and Bernadette Ong's place, followed by a few tall, cold vodka-and-tonics perhaps at Matt and Terry Gallagher's. The women can be depended upon...
...night, policemen are posted at every intersection on this strip. A navy blue M.P. paddywagon watches over one of the discotheques. Gangs of well-liquored sailors and well-lacquered women stroll the street, stopping to chat in convenient alleyways. At Breen Square, a plump Polish girl will offer to show you her apartment...