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...fifth-story hotel window. "We were just having fun, letting off pressure," he remarked afterward. "It was funny when the cops came in and looked at us like we were mad dogs." But it wasn't so funny several months ago at New York's Beacon Theater, when Bass Player Leon Wilkeson tossed his smashed guitar into the audience, lacerating the face of a girl in the front...
...secret place known as "sanctuary." Logan is accompanied on his run by a comely young thing (Jenny Agutter) and sped on his way by the knowledge that computer central has mysteriously shortened his life span and has set the jewel in his palm blinking like a beacon...
...born in relative poverty, the son of an unassuming parson who died when the boy was seven. He was thereupon adopted by his childless uncle Thomas, a Gargantuan export-import trader (tea, codfish, whale oil) who had built the first mansion on Beacon hill. Uncle Thomas put young Hancock through Harvard, class of '54, and then eight years in the counting room of the House of Hancock. When Thomas Hancock died, he left his 27-year-old nephew a fortune of ?80,000, the largest in New England...
...course, this list excludes the really interesting places you might not stumble across in seven weeks at the Summer School--like all those bars down Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square, and up Cambridge Street toward Somerville. Those are the neighborhood places: O'Connors, on Beacon Street, rivals Whitney's in price, and the ambience is strictly Irish neighborly and close-knit; Studley's, on Kirkland, is a little less homey and more corporate, featuring a 6-foot high color TV screen and professionally frosted steins of draft beer. Kevin's Club, in the same area, features country and western bands...
...Winter's Tale. By the Acting Company and good old Bill, at the Charles St. Meetinghouse, 70 Charles St. on Beacon Hill, Wed-Sat at 8 p.m., Tickets $3.50 on Thursday, $4.50 on Fri-Sat. It isn't clear to me how much it is on Wednesdays, sorry...