Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the burden for these and other short-comings in the staging lies apparently at the feet of director Andrew McCullough, an experienced technician who must have been below his best for the current production. One piece of staging in particular was painful: the hiding at the back of the set of the frighteningly pathetic scene in which June comforts her son Johnny after he sees the ghost of the man he has betrayed...
Best of the lot is the Leo Martin Memorial course in Auburndale, out near Wellesley. Once the private Riverside Club, its fairways and greens are in good shape and, for the most part, interesting to play. The first nine is short, and the holes near the clubhouse are rather flat, but the others present some challenge...
...only links for men without their own transportation is ten minutes away at Fresh Pond at the end of the Huron Avenue trolley run in Cambridge. Here the course itself is well laid out, though short, with its physical condition and the people playing on it major objections...
Stepping across the Yard, Vag took a short fix on the Mem Hall clock and suddenly ducked aside, just in time to miss a Radcliffe troop coming the other way. Such happy looks on their faces, he mused--and then almost dropped his pipe. Of course, he thought with a start, the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect--co-education was here to stay. In his daze, he narrowly cleared another covey of skirts and sweaters. He could distinctly hear the 1896 Gate squeaking its hinges in disgust and any time now, the Mem Hall bell would start up a dirge...
...heads sympathetically. They pitied him for being out of civilized circulation; they and their forebears had lived thus for untold centuries-since the legendary days when Prince Aeneas and his Trojan followers founded the Roman race. "We're not Christians," the peasants gravely told Painter Levi; "Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli"-the point at which the highway leaves the blue Gulf of Taranto and loses itself in Lucania's arid wastes...