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...time Harvard Square watering hole, at 4 p.m. on a weekday, and it's surprisingly active. Including me, there are fourteen people in the bar: Two men and two women are trading flirtations in one corner, a bunch of middle-aged men sit at the other end of the counter watching a Morgan Freeman movie I can't identify, and a couple of younger guys with thick Boston accents are talking their way through a game of pool...
...newspapers and thus intercept the very last-minute news. I can remember Harry bursting through the night traffic on Broadway to seize several copies of the New York Times hot off the delivery wagon. We would gather as many papers as possible and retire to a quick-lunch counter to read them. Harry always gave me the Herald Tribune, with the remark, "Here, Russ, you read the Tribune. It's always a day late anyway." Whenever anything was discovered, either Harry or Brit would lunge for the telephone booth and dictate corrections to the proof room...
...seedy looking rent-to own agencies, a Spanish-American food store and a check-cashing operation. Nearby are a few small restaurants, one of which is aptly named "South End House of Pizza." The menu resembles Tommy's, and the place smells the same, but Nick behind the counter says no, they don't deliver to Harvard Square. Nick doesn't have any advice on what to see in the South End, much less any information about this particular intersection. In defense, he admits, "I've only worked two weeks here...
Back on Mass Ave., the Harriet Tubman House turns out to be an immigrant settlement, one of the United South End Settlements Houses. Two college students behind the counter in the lobby say the settlement house system was founded at the turn of the century to organize language classes, job files and job training for recent immigrants. "As you can see by the architecture, this lovely building was built in the late sixties," the woman working the desk says in her best tour guide voice. The second student continues, "We still have language classes, but now there...
...affecting a cosmopolitan air is a priority, then there's always cappuccino or penuchi fudge. Should Mom and Dad enjoy the eats during a visit, these wonderfully calorie-packed concoctions are also available nation-wide, thanks to Billings & Stover's mail-order service (order forms are on the counter or call...