Word: lynn
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...Columbus avenue. Michael Sacks, as the young Edmond, swishes around in a role clearly a couple of sizes too large for him. It might be kindly suggested to him that he take advantage of the Christmas season to return it for one that fits his limited capacity more closely. Lynn Bowman, the cleaning woman who seems to wash in and out of the office with alarming regularity, struggles vainly with her chronically undeveloped character. As the three of them sit about Arthur's office, playing with "I think that you think so" lines, we are left to wonder whether Mamet...
...buildings leveled, nine more badly damaged; 37 businesses providing 1,500 jobs burned out; $50 million in real estate ruined, plus $20 million or more in business and personal property; 400 people left homeless. No one was killed or even seriously injured. But the psychological blow was heavy. Lynn had lost jobs in industries ranging from shoemaking to jet-engine manufacture, and more than 20% of its population, since World War II. The renewal plan had offered the first plausible hope of reversing that all-too-common decline. Said Lynn Mayor Antonio Marino: "It was like watching my heart being...
...persuasive. There had been three previous fires of suspicious origin within two weeks, all of them next door to the building where officials believe the blaze began. But baffled investigators could find no rational motive: the building belonged to a state-chartered development agency, and was minimally insured. Dejected Lynn leaders can take heart from the example of Chelsea, Mass. (pop. 25,431), just five miles southwest. In October 1973 a fire there destroyed 360 buildings over 18 city blocks. Now 65% of the fire site has been rebuilt, and the rest is scheduled for new development...
Farther back in Lynn's own rich 352-year history is an even more reassuring example. Almost to the day 92 years ago, the "Great Lynn Fire" gutted four banks, three newspapers, 158 factories, 128 homes and 80 shoe companies, the latter reflecting an industry entrenched in Lynn since 1635. That blaze, claims Retailer Barry Zimman, a former president of the Lynn Chamber of Commerce, unexpectedly brought Lynn renewed prosperity. It cut a swath through small outdated structures that were replaced by big brick shoe factories-some of them destroyed in what residents are already calling the "Second Great...
Mayor Marino promises a similar rebirth this time, aided by federal disaster relief, which was granted to Lynn last week. Says he: "We have the strength to come back. We've always had that kind of determination...