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...when Boston officially renamed its spruce tree a “holiday” tree, both Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the televangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell voiced objections, with Falwell threatening the city with a lawsuit. Even Donnie Hatt, the man who chopped down the tree, said that “Boston should just put ‘Return to Sender’ on it because we sent it as a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree...
...past 64 years. Moreover, it is the 34th year Nova Scotia has given a tree to Boston out of thanks for the aid Boston provided to Nova Scotia when a munitions ship exploded on Dec. 6, 1917. So when the name change was announced, outrage predictably followed. Donnie Hatt, the logger who chopped down this year’s tree, commented that if he had known the tree would be called a holiday tree, “I’d have cut it down and put it through the chipper.” Sixty-four percent of the people...
...official name given by the Boston Department of Parks and Recreation. “I grew up with a Christmas tree, I’m going to stay with a Christmas tree,” Menino told the Boston Globe on Thursday. The Nova Scotia logger, Donnie Hatt, who felled the 48-foot tree was also upset about the name change, saying that he would not have cut down the tree had he known it was not going to be called a “Christmas tree.” “I’d have...
...restaurants and ten bars, a disco, a nightclub, a businessman's service center with stock exchange quotes and multilingual secretaries, a fitness club, a swimming pool with "beach club," even a corner for bridge players. There are no Gideon Bibles in the rooms. Instead, to "Parisianize" foreigners, Hatt plans to provide French classics. On the walls hang framed pens...
...guest should never have to stir outside his hotel"), Paris is not the kind of city where visitors feel constrained to eat where they sleep. Besides, there is the Rolls and, to make outside restaurant reservations, the beautiful Margaret, who is indisputably the most attractive head receptionist in Paris. Hatt & Co. must be doing something right. The Nova-Park Elysées is sold out through August. - By Michael Demarest