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Many an outsider thinks of Boston as a place largely populated by professors, antiquarians, dowagers, and other quaint characters who still like their Martinis three to one. But not Roger L. (for Lacey) Stevens A 42-year-old Detroiter who rose from filling-station grease monkey to millionaire, Stevens was in the group that bought Manhattan's Empire State Building for $51 million a year ago "because it looked like a cheap piece of real estate" (TIME, June 4, 1951 et seq.). To him Boston is another such property...
Through the streets they pranced, gorgeous and irrepressible, beating drums, blowing horns, hopping over the open sewers to the tune of the Third Man Theme played by a marching Dixieland band, sometimes dancing a quaint, shuffling samba, some balancing trays of chewing gum and candies on their heads...
...licks to a kid cor-nettist named Louis Armstrong. With six longtime jazzmen of Bunk's own choosing, he plays a free & easy program of twelve tunes, e.g., Chloe, Some of These Days, Out of Nowhere, in his simple but highly polished style. There are a few quaint runs and riffs straight out of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, but every number has the glow of on-the-spot invention...
...Wednesday prevented me from worming my way into the mass of my classmates struggling for Yale tickets last week. What was I to do? My date, filled with tales of the rivalry's great tradition and color, insists that we "take in the apeciacle," as is her quaint way of speaking...
Although the group produces its own program, it is still under the wing of the Radcliffe Athletic Association. This relationship harks back to the days when dancing was merely a quaint form of exercise...