Word: lothrop
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...spark that started what came to be called the collegiate "fish wars" of our grandparent's generation occurred right in Boston. It was 60 years ago, March 3, 1939, when the very first goldfish was gulped by Lothrop Withington Jr. in a campaign publicity stunt at Boston College. A candidate for freshman class president, Withington staged the swallowing to attract attention, after his friends gave him the idea with a $10 bet. Hungry for votes, anxious to collect his money, and most probably motivated by a prescient sense of history, the enterprising student invited Boston journalists to the event. Company...
...Catapulted to collegiate fame and 10 bucks richer, Lothrop lost the election but gained much, much more. He had broken down the door to wacky, collegiate fads, as kids everywhere anxiously followed suit, striving to outdo one another in speed and volume of goldfish consumption. Straightening sweater vests and smoothing down cowlicks, the bravest of our grandparents' generation rose to the challenge...
...Women. In real life it was inhabited by a succession of local celebrities--the Alcotts (1845-48), before they moved to Orchard House; Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852-53 and 1860-64), who gave the house its current name and added the Italianate tower topped with a "sky-parlour"; and Harriett Lothrop (1883-1924), who under the pen name Margaret Sidney wrote the classic Five Little Peppers books...
...fitting point of departure from Concord is Sleepy Hollow, a pleasant wooded ramble where 19th century Concordians used to take the air. Many of them linger there still. Sleepy Hollow is now a cemetery whose residents include the Alcotts, Emerson, Hawthorne, Lothrop and Thoreau...
...concert hall will close for extensive acoustic renovations, to reopen in the fall. As for the opera, it plans to move out of the Kennedy Center entirely. Thanks to an $18 million gift from Mrs. Eugene B. Casey, chairman of the board, the company has acquired the old Woodward & Lothrop department store in downtown Washington. After some political wrangling, including a videotaped deposition from Domingo, the city approved a zoning variance so that the store could be converted into an opera house. Scheduled to open in 2001, it will cost more than $100 million. "I hope that our opera house...