Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week London marked a record three weeks in which not a bomb had been dropped on the hub of Empire. The whole country had been relatively spared during that time, and, as has always been the case, the respite worried the British more than steady raids...
...rest of the world's picture of a Harvard man, succeeds in making a fantastic plot seem real. A bit bogged down at the start by a desultory script, Harrison in his final scenes, where he outraces a time-bombed munitions train, had even hard-boiled reviewers from the Hub dailies perched on the edge of their seats. Different, well-acted and exciting tonight's "sneak peecture" may well, like its predecssor, become one of the hit movies of the year...
...FIRST great local news for Hub art lovers since John Singer Sargent last walked off Beacon Hill happened this week when Francis W. Dahl, the idol of Twentieth Century Brookline, published his first book. But alas and alack, it doesn't measure up to what the artist is worth. Dahl chose for his first little volume his worst representative works, the "Left Handed Compliments" that greeted Harvard's Herald readers when they returned from their Christmas vacations, written after he had broken his right arm in an auto accident...
...delivered at a musical tempo to the sensitive parts of Dame Boston's anatomy. Hizzoner the Mayor, the debutante, college life and the Boston El all come in for their share of playful pushing. There is a burlesque on the modern school of dancing that does one of the Hub's outstanding aesthetic horrors to a beautiful brown. But many of the best scenes and most of the real talent fall outside the local-color category and would fit well into any revue. Bob Henry proves himself a capable young comedian in two laughable acts. Estelle Stahl provides a couple...
...numbered leafing through the latest issue of Esquire, with its luxurious layout, its smooth ads and smoother women-especially since the Petty girl has returned. But simultaneously with the return of this lovely creature came a decree by the Boston police banning it from newsstands in Cambridge and the Hub, amid, weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth...