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...untouched by Mount Auburn's natural beauty which others have so enjoyed. No Euripides, no Ernest Hemingway. We just couldn't appreciate this gross slyvan glade speckled with gray Victorian masonry that the prospectus so proudly called "the City of the Dead." But then it was raining pretty hard.Edwin Booth, legendary figure of the American stage, lies not far from Spruce...
Spruce Ave., we suspected, was the "Main Street" for the community's 59,919 inhabitants. On it, or close by, slumbered some of Mount Auburn's most distinguished residents, including Phillips Brooks, President Eliot, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Sumner, Louis Agassiz, and Edwin Booth. Others, such as Amy Lowell, Francis Parkman, Josiah Royce, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, were further removed to be sure, but there seemed to be no class distinction in non-sectarian Mount Auburn, and most definitely, there was no "wrong side of the tracks." Spruce Ave., while invigorating, seemed exhausting, and we felt our temples throb...
...hour in Oregon, a Kefauver press conference was scheduled, unscheduled, rescheduled and unrescheduled. Even Tour Director Charles Tyroler was moved to write a parody of the fickle itinerary. Sample: "11 a.m., previously unscheduled press conference in airport lounge. Kefauver drops bombshell. No ime to file. 12, rally in phone booth at local drugstore . . . Note-due to time changes and miscalculations by Kefauver staff, group is scheduled to depart Yakima Defore arrival there...
...mile junket for the U.N.'s Children's Emergency Fund. Martin Manulis' Playhouse 90, the chain's most ambitious drama project, offers adaptations of Charley's Aunt, Kay Thompson's Eloise, J. P. Marquand's Sincerely, Willis Wayde, and Shirley Booth in The Perle Mesta Story. Jack Benny returns this month from a successful BBC stint loaded with film shot in Europe (including a Paris show with Benny and Maurice Chevalier). In November the U.S. Air Force joins forces with CBS Public Affairs in a 26-part series called Air Power, "the story...
...chorus of boos rose from the convention floor, some delegates stood, shook their fists at the CBS booth above and behind the rostrum and shouted, "Throw 'em out!" (Said one CBS reporter who was on the floor: "I thought they were going to smash our cameras".) Later, still fuming, toplofty Paul Butler charged "absolute sabotage," demanded that CBS carry the film with advance notice of its showing...