Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Central Square in the 'Port'. Two of us had to go each midnight to read proof. As the ears from Boston ran only once an hour after midnight, and by horsepower, we were usually obliged to walk back to our rooms. In September, 1884, we contracted with an Englishman to print the paper. He had an old Washington hand-press and got off one issue--delivered the next afternoon. He was fired and Lombard opened a printing office for us in Brattle Street...
...death of Fabian Fall '10, the President, in the summer of 1909 shocked his contemporaries, for the young Englishman had become a popular figure in his two years at Harvard. A marble bust of Fall stood in a niche in the Sanctum of the Plympton Street building until the late Sixties, when it was removed by person or persons unknown...
LARRY BURROWS: COMPASSIONATE PHOTOGRAPHER by the editors of LIFE. Unpaged. Time-Life Books. $17.95. A selection, in color and black and white, from the work of LIFE Photographer Larry Burrows, who was killed while covering the Viet Nam War. Burrows was an Englishman who hated violence. His pictures and the accompanying biographical recollections by friends and colleagues reveal him as a man of courage, kindness and a very clear eye. But Burrows' images, which run back over the news events of the past 20 years in places like India, the Belgian Congo and Viet Nam, bear the saddest sort...
...fast-talking Englishman, now 40, who made and lost a fortune selling washing machines, Bloom had been struck by Comic Don Rickles' ability to insult Las Vegas audiences and make them love it. Audience participation, he decided, could spark interest in the little-known medieval restaurant he had opened in London. The serendipitous broadcast of The Six Wives of Henry VIII on British television provided some free publicity, and after Bloom added the nonstop entertainment, the prototype 1520 became a success...
...knit elected body called the Columbia Point Health Association often speaks for the clinic's opposition, though some attacks have come in the form of anonymous leaflets charging incompetence and insensitivity. The controversy reached a crisis point last spring after the then administrator, Leon Bennet-Alder, a frosty Englishman who had little rapport with the neighborhood, tried to cut costs and personnel he considered superfluous. He also attempted to fire a black business manager whom he accused of gross incompetence. Bennet-Alder became the target of threats by phone and leaflet. Then, on the way to work one morning...