Word: cronins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Square is living modern. With nearby Quincy a geometrical tombstone to Georgian elegance, Cronin's due to explode into a seven-story hygenic skyscraper, and the Harvard Trust new-faced with fresh brick and steel, the Square sloughs off its gingerbread and tries to make "form fit function...
...Pittsburgh, Pa. 78 Lawler, Edward E. '60 T 20 6.3 215 Alexandria, Va. 79 Budrewicz, Thomas '60 T 19 6.2 220 Greenfield, Mass. 80 Olobri, Charles L. '60 E 21 6.1 190 Pawtucket, R.I. 81 Gundlach, Louis T. '59 E 21 6.1 190 Bronx, N.Y. 82 Cronin, John W. '59 E 21 6.0 175 Providence, R.I. 84 Judkins, Richard F. '59 E 21 6.0 185 Worcester, Mass. 85 Traub, William H. '59 E 21 6.3 200 Richboro, Pa. 86 Bower, James W. '60 E 20 6.0 180 Bronxville, N.Y. 87 Flynn, J. William '59 E 21 6.3 195 Darien, Conn...
...menu at Cronin's has also reflected changes at the University. Straight Yankee cookery, solid meat and potatoes, have given way to "reversion to oddities": food of an "international tinge," as Cronin somewhat equivocally puts it. When oddities are brought from the kitchen, Cronin does not always know about them. Neat tenderloins of whale steak are lovingly brought in from the ocean, but Jim waxes unfelicitous when black-listed "oysters of turkey" find their way to the platters...
Food sales account for 70 percent of Cronin's gross, liquor the other 30 percent. About 1,120 gallons of beer come out of the tap each week. Cronin tends bar occasionally, and voices wise words for other bartenders: "Remain aloof yet attentive. Listen, but never give advice...
When the Health Center is built on Dunster Street and Cronin opens a new pub, it is sure to have one thing in common with the old one: the proprietor will be a candidate-in-good-standing for membership in the Men's Auxiliary of the W.C.T.U. Jim Cronin has never touched a drop, and probably never will. "When I was a boy they told me something in Latin about moderation. And I haven't been weaned from milk...