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From 1960-67, Logue served as the development administrator of the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). In those eight years, he built Government Center and the new Boston City Hall, laid out the plans for Quincy Market and extensive developments along Boston's waterfront, spurred numerous private developments in downtown Boston, and constructed thousands of low-and moderate-income housing units in urban renewal areas that covered 25 per cent of the entire city...

Author: By David H. Feinberg, | Title: From Beantown to the South Bronx | 10/2/1980 | See Source »

Last week, Ed Logue came back to Boston to participate in its the Cities of the World Conference. After moderating a panel in the Science Center, he reminisced about the days when he wielded power and could attract the funds needed to revitalize Boston. As director of the BRA, he commanded an autonomous and extraordinarily powerful bureaucratic office. He could make decisions which often translated directly into action. And the federal government reacted favorably to most of his plans. The feds, for example, provided all of the monies necessary to develop Government Center...

Author: By David H. Feinberg, | Title: From Beantown to the South Bronx | 10/2/1980 | See Source »

...Peter, 20, aboard their 25-ft. cabin cruiser, eased up to the Kalia III and made a grisly discovery: in a dinghy bobbing astern lay a bloated body. The yacht was riddled with shotgun pellets, smeared with blood and littered with debris, including Patti's spectacles and bikini bra. Yourell told TIME Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin W. Gate: "I haven't seen anything as bad since the South Pacific in World War II." Yourell radioed the authorities, who sent a plane to fly over the cay. But by the time the police arrived by boat a day later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Drugs and Death on the High Seas | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...Everyone knows that TV commercials are better than the shows," says Comic Steve Martin. So, Martin has taped All Commercials, an NBC special set to air in September. Among the products he plugs: Truman Capote jeans, the Just a Second Honey bra and Mount St. Helens laxative. But his favorite bit is a tribute to Morris the Cat, finicky flack for feline food. "He and I were quite close. His death came as a real shock," Martin confides. "I want to show the real Morris, the private Morris." For this, he boasts, he is purrfect: "People who knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 8, 1980 | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...compromise: "not too old, not too young, not too cute, not too Sicilian." Two girls have to be found who can talk on the phone while doing yoga headstands. One is rejected as "too Procter & Gamble"; another causes a small problem when she arrives on location without a bra under her skintight leotard. There are also serious research questions: Do Army recruits have telephones near their beds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Words from a Sponsor | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

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