Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proper Planning. Unlike Hazel Crest, Wilmington, Mass. (pop. 11,000) is delighted that Highway 93 pierces the town. Almost at the rumor stage, Wilmington four years ago began to plan for the highway, is prepared now to enjoy its benefits. The town used to lie 45 minutes from Boston by car over snaky roads; superhighway travel time is 20 minutes. Wilmington as a result is becoming a Boston bedroom. To handle the growth, the town's seven-member planning commission drew up tight zoning laws and a town meeting speedily approved them. Proper planning has already produced a bonus...
...Harvard Glee Club ranged themselves in a semicircle on Boston's Jamaica Plain and began to serenade the ladies in the lighted window above. They warbled songs like Mother, I'm Slowly Dying and The Man in the Moon's Ball. Midway through, they were interrupted by a band of town boys who made rude noises on wind instruments, unhitched the Harvards' horses and sent them trudging on foot back to Cambridge. That was in Harvard's musical infancy. Last week the glee club assembled again (present membership: 135) to celebrate its centennial with...
...college glee club in the land: 169 works in English, Latin, French, Italian, Tagalog and German. It has recorded Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and works by such varied composers as Gabrieli, Piston. Byrd, Randall Thompson, Hindemith, Palestrina, Berlioz. Its concerts with the Boston Symphony have become city fixtures. This year, as every year, the club will perform in clubs, museums and theaters from Cambridge to Texas (48 concerts), will leave after final exams for a European tour. It performs for pay ($200 to $1,400 a concert), this year is operating...
Much of the glee club's effectiveness derives from Woody Woodworth's genius for making the choral literature exciting. A sharp-featured, intense man, he throws himself into his work with such flamboyant enthusiasm that one Boston Symphony musician watching him conduct last week said wonderingly: "Who does he think he is-Koussevitzky?" Conductor...
CONRAD HILTON will put up two-story, 300-room airport hotels throughout U.S. He has leased land near San Francisco International Airport, is dickering for lease in Los Angeles, has plans for New York, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New Orleans, Miami, Seattle...