Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Republican Party has been sold down the river so many times in Boston that people are beginning to call it "Showboat." At least this is the charge leveled by a large group of city Republicans against prominent members of the Party who consistently support Democratic candidates. Despairing men like...
Next Wednesday evening the 55 members of the Harvard Summer School Chorus will perform at Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m., and according to their director, Eliot Forbes, "my chorus sings better if there's a good audience."
Robert Delaney's "John Brown's Song", the focal point of the program, was first introduced by G. Wallace Woodworth, previous head of the Harvard Glee Club, 20 years ago. Mr. Forbes, who thinks "the piece is a beauty" is reviving it now for the first time.
Arnold Raymond Cream, who fights under the name of Jersey Joe Walcott, is a first-rate boxer, and he can hit. Many a fan who saw him fight Joe Louis in 1947 (he knocked Louis down in the first round, nearly knocked him out in the fourth) thought Jersey Joe...
On a dusty shelf in the Forbes Library, Northampton, Mass., Librarian Lawrence Wikander came across a long-forgotten, unopened box with a 1,821-page manuscript, sent up by Calvin Coolidge the day before he left the White House in 1929. It was the stenographic record of his twice-weekly...