Word: cronins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attorney Phillip M. Cronin '53 protested that the Cambridge Planning Board had "spot-zoned" the Observatory Hill area in order that Harvard might construct apartment buildings there. Downgrading of the "high-class" residential area was unwarranted since 1943 and had been done with total disregard for his 252 clients, he declared...
...Cronin also asserted the University's responsibility to maintain the land in its present status as a park where children ski in winter and play "baseball and football" in summer. The site is private, however, and these games technically represent trespassing...
...when duty called last spring in the form of an "approach" from Kensington Palace, Cronin gallantly undertook the job-at a salary of $2,200 a year-despite his unfavorable impression of his new master. Tony Armstrong-Jones's pants, in Cronin's opinion, were still much too "tight-fitting." Worse, his new master had not even the rudimentary good sense to stay abovestairs, but popped into the kitchen ("a place I do not expect to see masters") to ask how things were going. Stifling his outrage at this uncouth behavior, Cronin answered stiffly that he must hire...
Swollen Mandarin. Cronin promises to relate, in future installments of People, the "even more trying times that were still ahead." But some Britons had already seen enough. Cassandra, the terrible-tempered columnist of the London Daily Mirror, dubbed Cronin "this swollen mandarin of backstairs protocol," and railed against his "miserable etiquette, his tawdry patronage and his backbiting desire to make money at the expense of his late employers." British butlerdom reeled with shock. Samuel Bretson, head of the nation's only school for butlers, was in despair at Cronin's repeating "tittle-tattle-and about the royals...
...babbling butler's exposé seemingly closed all doors in Britain against him. But Thomas Albert Cronin could scarcely care less, at least for the moment. Last week he was in the U.S., appearing on Jack Paar's TV show, and wending his leisurely way to Florida, where he is promised another palace job: as a $17,000-a-year host at a jai alai palace in Dania, a tourist center north of Miami...