Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward A. Crane '35, poor son of a Cambridge cop, Harvard magna cum laude, successful Boston lawyer, director of Harvard Trust, Cambridge City Councilor for almost 30 years, was a power broker for as long as most Cantabrigians can recall. "He touched all the bases," says insurance man Jack Dyer, an inveterate political observer of Harvard Square...
...same time Crane began to call the key business friendships needed to exercise the necessary influence that his title of mayor could not provide. Frank Townsend, Chamber of Commerce president in the fifties--a man about whom Dyer says, "When I was selling Chamber of Commerce memberships to the city I was really selling Townsend,"--full into the Crane fold. He and the rest of the Harvard Square businessmen--at that time native Cambrigians, residences in Cambridge being perhaps the most important prerequisite to community power--played ball with Crane. And through Atkinson, Crane reciprocated, cutting taxes when every other...
...paragraph of The Crimson story, neither mentions SAT's nor does it have any direct implications concerning their use by college admissions officers. Since SAT scores are good statistical predictors of scholastic performance in the freshman year, they are clearly relevant to the selection process. I agree with Henry Dyer, a recently retired vice-president of Educational Testing Service, that tests of specific competence are more valuable than IQ tests (e.g., the Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler), which are intended to assess hypothesized innate qualities underlying cognitive performance. (Belief in the validity of such assessments rests on pre-scientific views...
With the Ram fans coming from Rose Hill down the Dyer Ave. line to the Garden triumphantly singing school songs, there is no way that the game on the floor can match the cheering in the stands. All the noise, cheering, boozing and carousing makes a great atmosphere for basketball...
...handed catch that Bench has adopted, was nearly retired at 28 with knee injuries and is playing only part time this season. A few up-and-coming receivers are still healthy, including the St. Louis Cardinals' hard-hitting Ted Simmons and the New York Mets' Duffy Dyer, who was recently named National League Player of the Week-after replacing the injured Jerry Grote...