Word: bostonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Culture's Bastion. "Fred" Allen, 58 years old this week, is a tall (6 ft.), spare (130 lbs.) Bostonian whose modest prayer is that his mind will always be larger than his frame. Fred's father, a Back Bay minister, sent him to Groton (it tasted awful but was good for him, he feels-like milk of magnesia). At Harvard he was on the Lampoon with Cartoonist Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley. Allen landed his first editorial job under Ellery Sedgwick on the Atlantic Monthly, was managing editor of the old Century at only...
...State, commenting briefly in a reminiscent vein; Otto E. Fuerbringer '32, a senior editor of Time Magazine, discussing "Newsmagazines and Newspapers"; Selig S. Harrison '48, present CRIMSON President, reporting on the state of the paper today and plans for the future; and Cleveland Amory '39, author of the "Proper Bostonian," leading off with introductory remarks...
Woman's Angle. Mrs. Gowles won her reputation as a career girl before Look did. As a 16-year-old Bostonian with a gift of gab, she talked herself into a $100-a-week advertising job with Gimbels in Manhattan. By 1936 she had an advertising agency of her own and was making $20,000 a year. On Passport No. 1492, she was the first U.S. businesswoman to visit Europe after V-E day. In 1946 she quit her agency to work with the Famine Emergency Committee. Nine months later she and Publisher "Mike" Cowles, friends since 1941, were...
...Many a Bostonian who has no love for Dumaine was on his side in the fight. They felt that the New York interests (insurance) which had dominated the railroad had given Boston the short end of :he New Haven's business. Lately, South Shore commuters and Cape Codders have been fighting mad over the New Haven's plan to stop passenger service on its subsidiary, the Old Colony Railroad, the only railroad to the Cape. Shrewd Frederic Dumaine said that if he won the New Haven he would try to keep the Old Colony running...
...flashy in his conducting ("Was that the Beethoven Eighth? demanded one Proper Bostonian when Münch guest-conducted in Boston last year, "or the Battle of Waterloo?"). But when he is at his best, Bostonians will find the same electric brilliance and showy skill to which Koussevitzky has accustomed them...