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...cities, the familiar red-front A & P store is the real melting pot of the community, patronized by the boss's wife and the baker's daughter, the priest and the policeman. To foreigners A & P's vast supermarkets are among the wonders of the age; to the U.S. middle class, they are one of the direct roads to solvency. "Going to the A & P" is almost an American tribal rite...
...Real Toot. The fiction, moreover, is in good part fact. Novelist Schulberg* was one of the young devotees who in the early '30s sat around Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, watched his creative fires exhaust themselves under the Hollywood pot, and remembered how those fires had lighted a generation on its way in such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby...
...Boston, Syracuse over Boston University, 13-7, for first-time possession of the spanking-new Old Bean Pot (TIME...
Except for the Boston Record, which went along to the extent of running a picture of the pot, the Boston press pretty much ignored the big find. But Publicityman Wood was not through. Later, he mailed out another release: the president of the Syracuse University Alumni Club of Boston had claimed the pot on the grounds that it was "very likely" made in Syracuse. Final announcement (due some time before the B.U.-Syracuse game next week): the two schools have agreed to play for the bean pot from here...
Publicityman Wood didn't seem to mind that a lot of people knew about his stunt. He was confident that, within a few years, nobody would care very much how the old Bean Pot Tradition did start...