Word: charlestown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill was repealed. The Post exposed a city land deal which would have enriched inside politicos. A reporter visiting City Hospital found things so poorly run that strangers could get free meals; another reporter made off with an $80 wheel chair without being stopped. Another Postman got into the Charlestown Navy Yard without any trouble and wrote that he could easily have sabotaged millions of dollars worth of Navy equipment. But three weeks ago the Post rode off on another crusade-and took a tumble...
This story of intricate Communist mancuvers to capture scientific data takes place in Boston--and the theatre audience won't let you forget it. Russian agents land in Charlestown and make their contacts in the Boston Common or on Beacon Street; the FBI tracks them from Louisburg Square to such obscure spots as the Lampoon Building. The whole chase maintains trotting speed throughout, then gallops up to a suspenseful final scene involving parachute flares, speedboats and even submarines...
...Views varied in the Jamaica paddock. Said Jockey McLean: "Four races, four wins-why not?" Said one veteran horseman: "BATTLE MORN lost a lot of ground and looked best." Said another: "Not one of them dogs can run a lick. To me they looked like the field for the Charlestown Derby...
...charter of incorporation from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and thus became the administrative masters of 14-year-old Harvard's single wooden building, its 800 books, and the ?30 to ?40 worth of wampum collected each year from the tolls of the Boston-Charlestown ferry...
...addition, vandalism was also reported at Cambridge Field, where four trees were destroyed; at Abbey Street, where windows in the National Biscuit Company's plant were smashed; and in Charlestown, where a candy shop has been a constant target for the past week...