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...deskman but a roamer who pops into offices, huddles on the run with his young and fanatically loyal staff, often takes off in one of the company's private planes to close a sales deal if he thinks his presence will help. He has led a civic-reform drive in Youngstown, is an opera buff who collects old Caruso records and prefers Tristan and Isolde above all other operas...
...Cambridge Civic Association, which customarily campaigns for progressive causes, has expressed itself in favor of fluoridation, but has decided to let Mrs Bauer's group represent their interests
Roughly speaking, the story is about a civic committee led by a master crook which is trying to bring about "progress." A mansion peopled by a trio of spinsters with highly suspect hobbies stands in the way of progress, and must, of course, be removed...
Best of all, though, was a song of modern social protest. At one point in his campaign to swing public opinion against the reluctant spinsters, the civic leader enlists the support of some collegiate picketers who are suffering from the "Age-of-Anxiety Blues." Distressed that "Jim Baldwin said kid you gotta take a stand, but Ole Miss has opened and the bomb has been banned," the Wellesley-Brandeis-Radcliffe collection of demonstrators complain that "Sartre said kid you gotta decide/but how can I determine the essence inside...
...because "Gallic" Shaw is the Lady Umpire of the Social Game. She is 59, the daughter of a now-deceased social secretary who first started the Green Book series back in 1930, and she knows her social shallots. Her list, she says, comprises "important people from the social or civic angle and old blue-bloods-people who make the wheels go around in Washington...