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Skinny kids and five-by-fives, soot-covered scalawags and rosy-checked cherubs, kids from all the dark reaches of Boston and Cambridge's soapier side have one thing in common if they spend their idle hours in one of the metropolitan area's 44 settlement houses: they like "that Harvard guy" who comes down of an afternoon or evening to show them a good time...
...would be disappointed if it did. Hoboken is not a garden spot. Its wharves, its factories, its warehouses, its 254 bars, its bookie parlors, its bleak blocks of ancient brownstone houses, its 50,115 people, their washing and their unspeakably articulate cats are all jammed into one clangorous, soot-shrouded square mile. But Hoboken was made to order for Bernard Nicholas McFeely. He grew and prospered there...
...Tokyo, 29-year-old Genzo Kuriyama, ex-paratrooper, faced bankruptcy last month. He jumped 82 feet down a bathhouse chimney. Police reported that soft soot at the chimney's base and "past rigorous training as a paratrooper" prevented completion of his mission...
...domineering and jealous mother, to mount the throne and demand for the first time the right to a private bedroom. A half-century later, wide-eyed Victoria had become an aged Empress with drooping jowls, and her Kingdom a true Empire heavy with gold, black with industrial soot, and red with the blood of conquest...
...better world." San Francisco's Mayor Roger Lapham still thought his city "would be a better place." But in New York, almost everyone seemed pleased about it. Wealthy U.N. neighbors-to-be foresaw sky-rocketing real-estate investments. Elimination of the slaughterhouses would remove some of the soot which now makes the district the city's dirtiest. Storekeepers were bound to profit...