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...immigration wave to America and to make sightseeing stopovers along the way at Marseilles, Paris, London, Liverpool, and Halifax. Reaching Boston with one lone dollar to his name, he first worked in a friend's establishment on Essex Street and after a brief stint on his own in the Hub made the move to Cambridge. He had never enjoyed an education of his own so basking in the erudition of others appeared an attractive substitute. "If you gonna go near a big college," he explains thirty-five years after, "you be 'round the better people...
Boston's fund-raising drive for a new Children's Medical Center, backed by Charles Francis Adams '88 and other leading citizens of the Hub, will enlist the aid of the University Band Sunday afternoon, in a publicity rally located at the Hatch Memorial Shell...
Eighteen months after its original Boston opening, pulling into the Hub for the last week of its existence, Maurice Evans' so-called G.I. version of the great English tragedy is incomparably closer to achieving its original objective than it was when it opened in 1945. What makes the difference in this strangely improved production is the supporting cast, which has undergone a complete transformation since the opening. Gone are the foreign accents, the faltering diction, the awkward pace of the original Gertrude, Claudius, and Polonius; in their place an almost perfect supporting trio has appeared. As the queen, Doris Lloyd...
Boston College's talented baseball team opens its season against the Varsity this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Eagles' Newton roost. Picked by Hub sportswriters as the strongest team in the Boston area, the Eagles reputedly have former all-scholastic diamond stars liberally sprinkled at all positions, and a couple of veteran hurlers back from former seasons...
Boston's pennant winning Red Sox open the 1947 Hub baseball season this afternoon against the washed-out Washington Senators at Fenway Park, as Manager Joe Cronin sends his ace right-hander, Cecil (Tex) Hughson, to the mound to oppose "Bobo" Newsome...