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...composing room of the Boston Transcript most of last week there was no scroogy handwriting to labor over, no fierce-eyed little man popping in at the door with sharp invectives. The little man was missed at the Friday afternoon Symphony where for years he had sat in the front row of the balcony, the seat beside him vacant. That night Henry Taylor Parker ("H. T. P.") died of pneumonia. He was 66. For 29 years he had been Boston's oracle on theatre and music...
...viewpoint. Boston knew him for a sputtery, gnomelike person who wore a flowing cape for evening, carried a stout bamboo stick, shunned conversation. He did most of his writing between 3 and 5 a. m., always in longhand on yellow ruled paper. Afternoons saw him in his musty, little Transcript office, painstakingly correcting proof, sorting and editing the world's stage news. No one ever dared to call his page provincial...
...This transcript of the dialogue from "Madame Spy" is typical, if not literal. What more I could say would be only expansion and review of this damning evidence...
...fellow" is happily the commonest fellow of all. Whether the new fellows at Harvard will ever be commonly so called we do not know. But they are a welcome institute: and these Middle Westerners are greeted as good fellows even before they have arrived. The Nomad in The Boston Transcript...
...hour after his paper had been sold, Editor Baker jumped in his Chevrolet coach, drove 40 miles to make a speech on "the finer things in citizenship." First issue of the Transcript after the sale urged its readers to use the same tactics in "the next round with the octopus." Editor Baker is campaigning for funds to defray legal expenses for 300 other water-rate strikers. Invited by the water company, after two denials, to attend a rate conference, Editor Baker refused to accept the settlement offer, has been barred from all future meetings. Meanwhile Editor Baker holds proxies...