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...Boston dowager once dismissed Frederic Christopher Dumaine, 84-year-old president and chairman of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co., in a single frigid sentence: "Mr. Dumaine is the sort of person who spits in the fire." When he heard of the remark, improper Bostonian Dumaine turned to a friend, asked blandly: "Well, what the hell? Doesn't everybody...
Perhaps the classic remark came from a freshman who answered the question, "What do you think of Harvard men as dates by writing, "Who wants to think when she's out with a Harvard...
...other Boston paper printed the prison record of J. Joseph Connors, appointed an election commissioner in 1948 by Mayor James Curley, until more than a year after out-of-town publications carried the story. By & large, the Boston press was best summed up by a proper Bostonian's remark: "For murder and rape, we can read the Boston papers. For the news, we read the New York Times...
...Your article on Admiral Sherman [TIME, March 13] was a typically fine TIME journalistic achievement and an excellent coverage of a most deserving subject. However . . . I take exception to your remark that West Point [seems to] produce more "broad-gauge" minds than does the Naval Academy...
...plane from Bratislava an American passenger, Katherine Kosmak, USIS librarian in Prague, noticed nothing amiss until the pilot began to circle for a landing. Then she heard a woman remark: "Oh, this isn't Prague." On the field below were U.S. military planes. In a hubbub of surprise and alarm, the liner rolled out, taxied up to the line. U.S. officers yanked open the hatch, yelled: "Get out, get out! No one is going to be hurt. You are in Munich. One of your pilots doesn't like Czechoslovakia...