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...legislative hearing on the Charles River Basin last Monday gave evidence that some Cambridge politicians have not yet exhausted their wit in discovering new ways of profiting from the city's drive for improvement. In the cause of "progressive industrialization," certain well-situated individuals appear to be seeking to palm off worthless land as valuable, realizing a handsome bit of cash in the process...
...part of a public park and boating area in the immediate vicinity of M.I.T., the Basin is owned by the estate of a gentleman named White. A group of individuals who claim to have only Cambridge's best interests at heart are trying to persuade the MDC that the land could be used valuably as an industrial site. At the head of this public-spirited and self-appointed delegation stands Mr. John Briston Sullivan, supported ably by Ex-Mayor Edward Sullivan...
...short, the Sullivans' advocacy of the proposal seems substantiated by little more solid than a desire to make the Basin appear a great deal more valuable than it now is. By spearheading the fight to cloak the land with an apparent mantle of industrial value, Mr. J.B. Sullivan stands to make a considerable profit...
...this, many farmers came from miles around to shake Max's hand. Says he: "A lot of them told me they had never heard music like this before." The combination of Max and FM proved so fertile that now, two years after the Rothmans began flooding the basin with Beethoven, Schoenberg, Saint-Saëns and other good music. FCC is letting him branch out with an AM radio station as well. And this week the station's 36 stockholders-mostly old friends-will meet with Max to hear a cheerful report: during December, its first month...
...last week some 10,000 FM fans were well aware of the Rothmans, and joining them were many of the estimated 70,000 AM set owners scattered across the basin to El Paso. Looking forward at last to some generously profitable years, Max was grateful to his FM followers. "Now everybody seems proud of the station," said he. "Possessive even...