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...patient who arrived on a busy afternoon found only standing room available, and the standing overflow blocked the passage of nurses carrying supplies. The whole thing looked like Durgin Park on Saturday night...
...been a long day of walking for you, and you've earned a mighty supper. The top five restaurants are probably Locke-Ober's ($8.50 for lobster savannah; wait for your rich uncle to visit you), Joseph's, Red Coach Grille, Durgin Park (the roast beef, by all means), and Jimmy's Harborside (for seafood). Boston has a small Chinatown, about four blocks long, running off Washington St.; the House of Roy is one among several good restaurants in the area. For Italian food, it's Carmen's an as yet little known walk-up on Charles St., small, intimate...
...sailors never die; they just wade away. While patrolling the Mediterranean, the U.S. Sixth Fleet hosted a junketing group of West German dignitaries, plus two retired U.S. flag officers. Admiral Jesse Oldendorf, 74, a hero of the historic Battle for Leyte Gulf, and Vice Admiral Calvin Durgin, 68, also a battle-tried World War II task-group skipper. When the time came for the guests to shift from the supercarrier Forrestal to the missile cruiser Springfield, a high line was rigged, and the vessels slowed to 15 knots. "Which seat will you take?" asked Durgin, as their turn came...
...attention has been called to the letter of yours that Cyrus Durgin, drama and music critic of the Boston Globe, printed in last Sunday's newspaper. I was shocked to find a person of your eminence unleashing such an ill-timed and sloppily thought-out barrage against the Cambridge Drama Festival's tenancy this summer of the new, State-constructed Metropolitan Boston Arts Center (MeBAC); and I was surprised to see Mr. Durgin rising to your bait...
...maintain that it "has so suffered from the competition of Mr. Hunt's company [William Morris Hunt's is executive producer of the C.D.F.]...that it is doubtful that it can continue." When Mr. Durgin asked Mrs. Alison Ridley Evans, Group 20's manager, she said she thought her business had suffered "to some extent," but added equivocally, "It is hard to estimate how much." Yet Group 20's fine current production of Shaw's Man and Superman has evidently done excellent business since it has had to be held over an extra week...