Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Hope Aldrich Rockefeller, 21, daughter of John D. Rockefeller III, niece of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and John Spencer, 27, son of the late Poet-Professor Theodore Spencer (from 1946-49 holder of Harvard's prestigious Boylston chair of rhetoric and oratory); in Irvington...
...exhibit, however, ignores one large piece of land that the University hopes to acquire, the 13 1/2 acre area across Boylston St. from Eliot House now occupied by Metropolitan Transit Authority carbarns and storage yards. In February the University disclosed that it had made a "firm offer" for the property, promising the MTA $1 million over the "market value" of the land...
During its first five years, it hurriedly acquired for its cases in Boylston Hall collections of the Swiss lake-dweller artifacts and Danish archaeological specimens, superb examples which twenty years later could not have been purchased at any price. The Museum even in those days organized expeditions in North America, exploring and exploiting many of the richest mounds in Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, in the quest for more and more specimens...
...Museum's building posed another question. The cases Peabody owned were exhibited in spare corners of Boylston Hall. The amazing objects which the Peabody had gathered from its exploration, purchases, and gifts could not be displayed, or, if they were shown, could barely be seen in the murk outside Boylston's lecture room. Adequate facilities were needed...
...special division of the W.N.M.C.--the Advanced Research Projects Agency--launched the rocket from Boylston Hall at midnight May 9 "without a hitch in the countdown." A responsible source in the A.R.P.A. admitted that the missile used "the expanding gas principle and was therefore completely silent upon takeoff...