Word: saugus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allan F. Sawyer, Jr. '52, of Saugus, was elected captain of the freshman wrestling team yesterday...
...Death of a Spanish Town. Six years later, wearing his nostalgia for Paris on his sleeve, he hit the bell again with The Last Time I Saw Paris, a gamy, garlicky recollection of Left Bank life. Now he is going back where he came from. Linden on the Saugus Branch is the story of Paul's New England boyhood. At 56, Author Paul seems convinced that those were the days. The present days being what they are, many readers of his own age (and the romantically inclined among the others) may agree with...
LINDEN ON THE SAUGUS BRANCH (401 pp.) - Elliot Paul - Random House...
...while it was exciting to be a cause celebre. When pretty, honey-haired Teacher Isabelle Hallin was fired because of gossip that she had served cocktails to her high-school students (TIME, July 19, 1937), her neighbors in Saugus, Mass. signed petitions; students picketed her detractors' homes. She saw her picture splashed over the nation's front pages. Columnists glorified her. Out of the notoriety came a screen test-a chance to escape the humdrum life of a schoolmarm...
That was in 1937. She flunked the screen test. A radio job in Boston petered out. She sang a few times in nightclubs. Then she was forgotten. But there was no going back to Saugus. She wound up in Manhattan, writing advertising copy for lingerie and haberdashery, living in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment, struggling to make ends meet, like thousands of other obscure working girls...