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That a man of Frazier's "class"-to borrow one of his favorite words-should find harbor on the Herald is as unlikely as the discovery of Lucius Beebe's byline in Mad magazine. Boston papers, the Herald included, rank among the dreariest in the land, a reputation enriched every year. One measure of Boston journalism is that the Herald hired Frazier in 1961 to replace four comic strips. No doubt the paper considered the exchange a compliment to their...
...Border. What the Herald got was an undomesticated ego with the habit of erecting insults on the very borderline of libel. When Jack Ricciardi, Boston's commissioner of public works, faced the prospect of appearing as a witness before a U.S. congressional committee (he was never summoned), all Frazier could talk about was Ricciardi's curly hair. "My own view," wrote Frazier, "is that if U.S. Representative John Blatnik has any feeling for beauty, he will first compliment Mr. Ricciardi on his barber. Then, if he has any investigative zeal, he will inquire how many strokes with...
...Frazier's rhetorical flights carry readers past such disquieting polysyllables as "crepuscular," "demetry" and "blevins." The last, as hundreds of Bostonians discovered after vainly combing the dictionary, is no word at all, but a typographical error. Frazier meant Bruins, the name of the city's ice hockey team. The point is not that some Herald hand faltered, but that Frazier followers faithfully went on a blevins hunt...
Badge of Honor. The son of a West Roxbury, Mass., fire inspector, Harvard-man ('33) George Frazier has spent most of his life as a freelance writer and a fulltime embellisher of his self-anointed role as an eccentric. When the mood hits him, he drives 464 miles to Buffalo, where the Charter House Motel serves a salad dressing to his taste. He wears $265 suits, brings his own hot dogs to baseball games, and snoots the common man. "Can it seriously be argued," he asked, after observing the deportment of a hockey crowd, "that these ignorant, ill-clad...
...Frazier's hauteur is not confined to Boston Common. During a visit to New York last week, he found the new Americana Hotel "more awful than anyone can imagine," and densely inhabited by ''all the brassy blondes whom you seem to remember from Miami, all the sharp-featured characters in their wrap-around polo coats." Turning away disdainfully, he trained his eye on the city's newspaper strike, found an unexplored facet: the special travail of Manhattan's paper-trained dogs. "It strikes you as so strange." Frazier wrote, "to hear one woman complain...