Word: leveretts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even retiring U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 owed his Senate seat to more than his adherence to Republican principles. Unlike most Boston Brahmins, Saltonstall has always been a favorite of the Boston Irish. His graceful gentlemanly style as well as his willingness to campaign among the Irish have often been cited along with his refusal to be cowed by their glib politicians. Once, shortly after South Boston's St. Patrick's Day Parade, Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley told Saltonstall at a public meeting that the secret of Saltonstall's success was that he had "a South Boston face...
Walking down Athens Street in a grey topcoat, flanked by a worried tutee and an energetic black dog, William Alfred doesn't look like a playwright. The subject is Andrew Marvell. "Read 'The Garden' again," he says to the tutee who scampers off in the direction of Leverett Towers. He walks into his house, patting the dog in the process. "Bye, Sparky," he says closing the door (which, incidentally, he rescued from an old Beacon Hill mansion because it was such a "lovely door"), then winks with his gaminlike eyes and says, "Watch him start barking again." He does...
...Massachusetts Republican convention endorsed State Attorney General Edward Brooke, 46, who fills the highest elective office held by a U.S. Negro, for the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Leverett Saltonstall, also backed Governor John Volpe for reelection. Though Massachusetts Democrats enjoy a 2-to-l registration edge, both Brooke and Volpe hope to profit from primary fights in the opposition ranks...
...there is an 11th House, it may be built on a plot of land adjacent to Leverett Towers and across the street from the new 10th House...
...Dean Watson was exceeded, in others it was not. The vacancies created were filled by floaters. If there were any left over--there were five vacancies in Adams House on Monday--they were filled by swapping students from other Houses. Yesterday, one student from Eliot House and one from Leverett were taken into Adams...