Word: friedberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sack Theatres in 1962, the 4,200-seat Music Hall has been doubling as a movie palace and as a home for the Boston Ballet. Last summer, when a touring company of Broadway's Man of La Mancha unexpectedly sold out for twelve weeks, Sack President A. Alan Friedberg stepped up his efforts to renew his lease. This was bad news to Lodge, who had been raising money since 1976 to turn the Music Hall into the Metropolitan Center, a nonprofit performing hall for the dance, opera and orchestral groups that had forsaken Boston. Lodge beat out Friedberg, coming...
...Boston may not be willing to pay. Broadway shows have started bypassing Boston on their tryouts because of insufficient audience support. In the past few years, moderately priced suburban dinner theaters have lured many patrons away from the $25 tickets and distasteful proximity to the combat zone. Observes Friedberg: "Boston is a city with champagne tastes and beer pocketbooks." It is also a city where social climbing is just not done in Symphony Hall. Unlike younger cities, Boston has class that is bred on Beacon Hill, not bought with hefty contributions to the arts. Says Walter Pierce, director...
After Crimson fencing captain John Chipman mesmerized Penn sabreman Paul Friedberg, 5-2, in the opening bout of last night's fencing meet at the IAB, he strutted fiercely back to the Harvard bench, fist raised, yelling, "Beat Penn, beat Penn, beat Penn...
After clobbering Friedberg he outdueled Josh Marwell, 5-3, taking two of the last three touches by ducking under Marwell's high threatening blade, and the third by feinting a backhand slash into the Penn sabreman's side, then withdrawing the blade and quickly thrusting his point into the opposite side of Marwell's body. Chipman crushed his last foe, Young Sohn, with one high, two side and two low touches...
Sabreman Bob Homer gathered the only other Crimson winning record, recovering from a 5-0 loss in his first bout to edge Friedberg, 5-4, on a disputed call in his second. In his last duel Homer crushed Marwell, 5-1, deftly parrying Marwell's attacks and counterattacking for touches...