Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years of age, dressed in a brown coat and grey flannels, the Harvard scion has found it a simple task to remain incognito during his excursions through the Yard and elsewhere--even during a guide trip. In every detail of appearance or manner, from his deliberately complacent way of talking to his habit of shoving both hands deeply into his pockets, he might be taken for a "typical" Harvard man. He was even indifferent about Harvard itself until the tentacles of the Tercentenary entwined him, and even now refuses to display any enthusiasm for the University...
...materials from moth-eaten records. His acquaintance with the sites about which he writes is in every instance, first-hand, since he has traveled to see them and has interviewed resident officials and citizens on the spot. For sixteen years he has put time and effort into compiling the detail. Such precocity has resulted in a work which ought to find readers among Bostonians who are interested in local history...
Behind the obvious work of remaking the Yard into a theater worthy of Harvard's jubilee, there was an amount of detail and protocol that can scarcely be imagined. On an occasion when correctness must be the First Commandment there was a discouraging lack of precedents to follow. Harvard had never before played host in such lavish fashion, and the rules had to be made up as the game went along. It is certain that Mr. Greene on several occasions must have longed to sit down and write a letter beginning, "Dear Emily Post...
...convinced is TIME that its story of "Cy" Farnsworth's arrest for selling Naval secrets to the Japanese Embassy is inaccurate in any detail...
...avocation is being U. S. Ambassador to Spain, offered a biography of Jefferson that threw little new light on the great Democrat, but much on the intrigues, incipient rebellions, factional fights that surrounded him. Subtitled The Death Struggle of the Federalists, most of the book's 538 pages detail the decline of the brilliant party that, disregarding the warnings of Hamilton, went in for a suicidal policy of revenge, turned from an obstructionist campaign to forth right slander, from slander to treason, with "the destruction of the Union as a party policy...