Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Traveler nor any other Boston paper printed the prison record of J. Joseph Connors, appointed an election commissioner in 1948 by Mayor James Curley, until more than a year after out-of-town publications carried the story. By & large, the Boston press was best summed up by a proper Bostonian's remark: "For murder and rape, we can read the Boston papers. For the news, we read the New York Times...
Despite all this the Orchestra is better off than almost any in the country because of its traditionally loyal followers. The Friends of the Boston Symphony last year gave it $18,000. Another proof of the strong bond between the Proper Bostonian and his Orchestra is the fact that $80,000 came from legacies. The remaining deficit must be made up by a portion of the Serge Koussevitzky 25th Anniversary Fund...
Three months later, he opened the Union School, with two Indians, two Mexicans, and nine sons & daughters of the pioneers. He got his first textbooks by writing to a professor in Boston, who was delighted to oblige. "Imagine," purred the Bostonian, "my arm extended with the speed of thought from this cradle of the free school on the Atlantic shores, over the Alleghenies, over the 'Father of Waters' to give you a cordial greeting ... on the frontier of civilization...
Married. Samuel Eliot Morison, 62, historian, proper Bostonian, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Columbus (Admiral of the Ocean Sea, 1942), official historian of the Navy (History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II) and of his alma mater (Tercentennial History of Harvard, 1930-36); and tennis-playing, concert-singing Priscilla Barton, 44, Baltimore socialite; both for the second time; in Baltimore...
Theatergoing in Boston is unlike theatergoing in other cities, excepting perhaps that in Philadelphia and New Haven. It can be very advantageous. Last March, or instance, any Bostonian with a couple of bucks and a good car to the ground could have done what many New Yorkers still can not do: get a ticket for "South Pacific." But if he had been a diligent theatergoer, chances are that he would have already paid out a small fortune for a whole string of duds last season before being rewarded with "South Pacific...