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...Boston Garden was built to replace what existing sports structure in Beantown? (A hint, that structure serves up the best french fries in the Hub according to the connoisseurs of those tasty taters...
Aided by a John Riggins-Emerson Boozer running back combination that netted four touchdownes and 318 yards, the New York Jets rolled to a, 41-43, victory over the New England Patriots yesterday in Foxboro. However, Beantown fans can take consolation in the Bruins, 8-4, win over the Penguins...
...famous electric company yellow hat, which Boston TV fans have come to know through the ads the electric companies used to run on behalf of their "Big 11 Plus" power project. These ads have since been replaced by messages from Curt Gowdy, formerly our favorite Red Sox announcer in Beantown. These generally consist of Gowdy fishing downstream from a bright, clean electric plant (showing, of course, that the power companies care about fish...
...Harvard might just as well have stayed in Beantown and sent the Boston Bruins in their stead," Cornell Daily Sun sports editor Dave Golomb wrote last month. "For it would have taken a lot more than the Crimson had to offer to top Cornell's awesome hockey machine last night...
...seconded the motion by naming them Everett McKinley and Thomas Reed (after the then Speaker of the House). Father Dirksen died when Everett was nine. He had made a good living painting fancywork on carriages and buggies. But he left little. The family lived in the section called "Beantown," where thrifty immigrants grew beans instead of flowers. Dirksen's mother, a hardy woman who had helped build the wood-frame Second Reformed (Calvinist) Church with her own hands, set her boys to work. On their 1½ acres, they grew berries, lettuce, radishes, turnips and onions. They had cows...