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...HUSHED CROWD OF mourners overflowed onto Huron Ave. from the west Cambridge funeral home last week to say farewell to one of the city's life-long residents and most dedicated public servants...
...rest of Treadup's early life--his somewhat anti-climactic "salvation" after his first year of college at Syracuse, his pursuit of a B.S. rather than the then popular B.A., and his choice to devote his life to missionary work for the Y.M.C.A. in China--follows naturally from Hersey's early description of David's formative years and is often repetitive. Moreover other characters including Treadup's wife and family pale next to Hersey's concentrated focus on the giant hero and his all important surrounding. Hersey's choice of a life-long story offers the benefit of broad scope...
Royko writes about a host of subjects in the hundred columns, all with the same scepticism and humor. He's not just a humorist, of course--as his life-long feud with Mayor Daley can attest--but this collection does not include his anti-Daley columns. Royko alternately exhibits conservative and liberal tendencies without contradiction: he simply exercises good common sense and defies facile labels...
...Radcliffe Board of Trustees last week voted to rename the House in honor of Thomas Dudley Cabot '19 and his wife Virginia W. Cabot "in honor of their life-long committment to Radcliffe and Harvard," President Horner said yesterday...
...favorite in his 3,000 volume collection was Sir Philip Sydney's 1613 work. "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" which was presented to the countess by the author himself. Widener considered this book to be one of the finest example of Elizabethan leather work in the world. A life-long collector, Widener died on the Titanic in 1912, returning from a book buying mission in London. Fortunately, all of the rare books purchased by Widener in England were shipped back to the U.S. separately, except for one volume which went down with the Titanic, a second edition...