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...Ventura County community called Whalers' Village built a revetment and fought the public-access rule. A local court found the requirement unconstitutional in 1983 because it was "the taking of private property without paying just compensation." The ruling is being appealed. "The government is giving these people a Hobson's choice," says Whalers' Village Attorney Charles Greenberg. "Allow your homes to be destroyed or open up your backyard to the public." Santa Monica Attorney Sherman Stacey, who is bringing a similar suit, argues, "If the state wants to improve public access, why doesn...
...Hobson quarterbacked Alabama. Jensen played in the Rose Bowl, Horner set the college home run mark, Winfield was drafted by four leagues, and Seaver wrote his thesis on infield dirt...
...Butch Hobson...
...turn of the century, Back Bay was all genteel opulence and social superiority, magnificently expressed by Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church and McKim, Mead & White's public library on Copley Square. In the 1950s the area began to slide into a comfortable shabbiness. Most of the grand houses were converted into private schools, dormitories and offices, or divided into small apartments and rooming houses. Shops proliferated. In 1965 the clumsy 52-story-high Prudential Center rose incongruously on Boylston Street. It was followed by the 60-story mirror-glass John Hancock tower and other tall buildings. This...
...Still, Hobson's book reflects formidable energy and grit, and it ends with an account of a genuine triumph: her stinging 1947 bestseller about antiSemitism, Gentleman's Agreement. Publishing it amounted to breaking a conspiracy of silence and shouting out one of middle-class America's nastiest little secrets. Hobson was undeterred as usual, even by resistance from an unexpected quarter. Among six or eight people whom she consulted before publication, she notes, the general advice was to "go ahead from Christians, and not go ahead from Jews." -By Christopher Porterfield