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...Briggs, 3d '38, Cambridge; Norman H. Brisson '39, Brookline; Harold Brown '39, Dorchester; Joseph J. Buckley '39, Somerville; Theodore F. Bullen, Jr. '40, Melrose; Robert M. Bunker '39, W. Roxbury; Robert L. Calvert '39, Cambridge; John J. Carchia '39, Cambridge; William L. Claff '39, Malden; Edwin R. Clarke '39, Dedham; Albert Cohen '38, Cambridge; Albort Cohen '39, Roxbury; John G. Conley '38, Winthrop...
Contrary to popular belief, Nathaniel Ames, and not Ben Franklin, published the best colonial almanac. A Dedham physician and inn-keeper, Ames distributed his first issue in 1725. His publication became the most popular of its kind in New England and reached the then enormous circulation of 60,000. His calendar included such bits of wit as this: "Dec. 7-10. 'Ladies take heed, Lay down your fans, And handle well, Your warming paus...
...enrolled with the Boston Symphony in 1930. He was such a good bassoonist that Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky soon had him soloing with the orchestra. Last year Star Bassoonist Panenka began to play so poorly that Koussevitzky demoted him, threatened to fire him unless he improved. Suing for divorce in Dedham. Mass, last week. Bassoonist Panenka blamed his failing musicianship on his wife Rosa who, he alleged, threw dishes, slammed doors and whistled while he practiced. Divorce was granted...
Considerable property and money was left to other organizations in Massachusetts, but the residue of the estate, which will be shared by relatives, eventually goes to Harvard and four other beneficiaries, as named in the will filed in the Dedham Probate Court...
Horatio William Parker, who belonged to one of New England's proudest families, was born in Auburndale, Mass, in 1863. Until he was 14 young Parker took little interest in music. Within two years he became a church organist in Dedham, later in Roxbury, forsook his job three years later to study at the Hochschule fur Musik in Munich. In 1886 he returned to the U. S. with a Bavarian bride, got organ posts with churches in Brooklyn, Harlem and Manhattan...