James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard, for the first time has his name in the Boston Social Register. Prominent among the names missing from this year's edition are those of Mr. and Mrs. John Coolidge, the James Roosevelts, and John Davis Lodge, of Hollywood fame. . . .NEWS ITEM.
Foolish was Faust, chemist-supreme of Marlowe,
Who sold for gold his future and his name,
This is the day of Mallinckrodt and Harlow,
And a chemist can sell short and earn his fame.
This is the day when Conants speak to Cabots.
Mary Donnelly's first lady of the state.
Now Boston town is changing all her habits,
America, rise, and see how clean the slate!
When Henry Cabot Lodge was in his heyday,
He did but speak and a Senate understood,
But in this democratized hip-hip-hooray-day,
His grandson John embraces Hollywood.
Calvin's name has made the nation rumble,
But Boston's Blue Book will be no man's slave.
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