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...Dorchester native Saturday moved from a Beacon Hill supermarket to a Black and Hispanic section of Dorchester, to Finnegan turf in West Roxbury, to a house party at a posh Mission Hill row house, and then to a dinner and dance at the Knights of Columbus in the predominantly Irish South...
...Beacon Company of Boston now has the opportunity to buy the land on which the sign stands, said Monique Doyle, a company spokesman. The realty firm would work with the Coca-Cola company to remove the sign and transplant it to the new site...
Naming the New Planet is a problem. Percival Lowell's wife, who still lives in Beacon Street, Boston, last week suggested Percival. She rejected Lowell as being fixed to too many notable institutions-the Lowell Observatory, the Lowell Institute, the City of Lowell, etc. etc. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, suggested Cronos, son of Uranus and father of Zeus. Astrologers recommended variously Isis, Vulcan, Lilith. Choice lies with the Lowell Observatory...
...potentially popular movie may have on his candidacy (see following story). But politics aside, the movie's portrayal of Glenn aptly illustrates Kaufman's strategy in adapting Wolfe's book. In one of the author's best sentences, Glenn is described as "a lonely beacon of restraint and self-sacrifice in a squall of car crazies." In the movie, that line is given to Glenn to say, in a sweet and giggly exchange with his wife Annie, just as many of Wolfe's other observations have been converted into eminently playable dialogue. The resulting gain...
...suffers from a hereditary kidney ailment, and needs a transplant--preferably from within the family--to survive. His only prospects are Brother Earl (Gary Kian), an over-aged, childlike buffoon; brother James (Pat MacNamara), a reformed alcoholic and aspiring academic; and Harry (Frank Converse), the only realistic possibility, a Beacon Hill lawyer married into wealth and long ago estranged from the family. Compounding the tension is the elder McMillan (Carroll O'Connor), an aging Irish head-of-the-local who believes firmly in organized labor, romanticizes the good old days of socialism and, despite his elder sons' urging, is determined...