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...years. But in 1951 Sally Rand bounced back to Memorial Hall to reveal more facts. "I am a ballet dancer," she purred. Miss Rand lectured '54 on the threat of Communism and then retreated amid a hail of pennies and ice cream bricks. Later when interviewed in her Scollay Square dressing room, she told the CRIMSON "I got no personal gain from the speech. I just had to get it off my chest. I am not seeking political office." During the more recent smokey years, the Committee has managed to produce some variety of spice including a bashful Dick Button...
...public hearing is necessary before the city can seize property under the right of eminent domain. Favorable reports from the study group and the hearing will spell the end of Boston's once-famed burlesque theatre. A new expressway into the Scollay Square region has created a need for increased parking facilities in the area...
...Helen Keller '04, and Rachel Field '18 are three of the Radcliffe graduates whose works figure prominently in the collection. The wide variety of these books comprise the third section of the Archives. Murder mysteries like "Wedding Eve Murder" and "Blood From A Stone" stand near Pearl Schiff's "Scollay Square" and Dorothy Heyward's famous "Porgy." Down the stacks from Olive Higgins Prouty's "Stella Dallas" is Vera Dean's "United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration" written as Research Director of the Foreign Policy Association...
...Atheneum, started as a private library and art gallery, first opened its doors in Scollay Square in 1807. Sensitive to the rapidly changing character of Scollay, the library stayed only two years, moving to Pearl St. in 1809. After a short sojourn on Pearl St. the Atheneum was driven by the growing clatter of commercial Boston to its present site on Beacon...
Hordes of Cabots, Lowells and O'Reilly's have accepted the art of Scollay Square in a proper spirit of clean fun. And Boston has been justly proud, in more tolerant times, to be known as the home of this nation's first legitimate theatre. In fact, the cavalier action of the police is a slap in the face of hospitality that reaches back to the stoning of British troops...