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Post by hchoops on Nov 2, 2017 16:57:24 GMT -5
For HC in the prologue of his new book on Bobby Kennedy
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Post by rgs318 on Nov 2, 2017 18:00:08 GMT -5
On behalf of HC, thanks classmate!
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purple71
Crusader Century Club
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Post by purple71 on Dec 5, 2017 22:45:19 GMT -5
I just started the book and saw the references. I knew of the ditty about the Lowell’s and Cabot’s but had never heard that it was penned by a fellow Crusader.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Dec 6, 2017 0:00:12 GMT -5
My last employer had a blue blood officer with a lot of money, but those in the know were aware that his wife had the real cash in the family. As it turns out she is a genuine Cabot, and I was able to use the famous ditty to explain to others her standing in society.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Dec 6, 2017 7:03:02 GMT -5
A Philadelphia Jew wanted to change his name to Cabot. The Cabots objected, and litigated the matter. Kabotchnik v. Cabot (in 1923 BTW, the same year as the appearance of a certain moniker.). See: harvardmagazine.com/1997/03/browse.book.html^^^^ A very humorous narrative of the case, with defamatory references on how the Cabots became rich, which, of course, wouldn't be defamatory if they were true. |
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 6, 2017 8:47:08 GMT -5
There is always a different way to recall such things. I heard a toast while at HC...
Here's to the City of Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,
Where the Cabots speak only to Lodges,
And the Lodges speak only to God.
I used it to try to explain the "aloofness" of Henry Cabot Lodge to my students.
(Edited after checking back a bit. I never heard a version with the anti-semitic tinge that the first version seems to carry.)
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Dec 6, 2017 9:10:25 GMT -5
Isn't that the correct one?
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 6, 2017 9:17:08 GMT -5
I edited what I had. I believe it referred to the Cabots and the Lodges.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Dec 6, 2017 11:23:47 GMT -5
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Post by CHC8485 on Dec 6, 2017 11:52:02 GMT -5
No need to estimate. According to my hard copy alumni directory, published in 2000, John C. Bossidy was class of 1881.
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Post by Chu Chu on Dec 6, 2017 12:30:39 GMT -5
Good stuff! By the way, I hear that the book is excellent.
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Post by hchoops on Dec 6, 2017 13:06:52 GMT -5
The book is more of an effective personal reflection than a history book, as is apropos for a journalist and not an historian.
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