Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Andrew Monahan, marketing consultant for Accuracy Inc.. stood up before a Boston meeting of the American Marketing Association and told the whole story: the MOLE was an elaborate hoax. Accuracy Inc. is a small firm that manufactures precision potentiometers-small electrical measuring devices (known in the trade as pots) that are used in electronic systems. Such firms have an advertising problem. Since their products are used chiefly in highly classified projects, they can do little public boasting. Since their customers are only a handful of procurement officers in the Pentagon or a few specialized firms, money spent...
...world's great repositories of primitive art is Harvard's Peabody Museum-where few people except students of anthropology ever set foot. Just across the Charles River, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts plays host to hundreds of visitors each day, but it has had no primitive art to show them. Last week the two museums joined forces under an agreement whereby Boston's Fine Arts will exhibit Harvard's primitive treasures, celebrated their new partnership with a massive exhibition of masterpieces of primitive art, with the Peabody's best supplemented by loans from private...
Died. James Michael Curley, 83, onetime top Democrat in Massachusetts (Mayor of Boston, Governor, Congressman); following surgery for an internal obstruction; in Boston (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
RAILROAD MERGER is under discussion by five New England roads: Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Rutland Railway, New York, New Haven & Hartford. They want to cut costs of parallel operations, set up ninth biggest U.S. road with some 5,300 miles of track, $900 million of assets...
...about the education of Henry Adams. The "ironic hindsights" and "note of self-mockery" that dominate that famed autobiography were, in effect, argues Author Ernest Samuels, the verbal spitballs of old age that Adams was throwing at his teacher, life. In his projected three-volume study of the querulous Boston Brahmin of which Henry...