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...Because of his persuasion, Powers, who had been born in Uxbridge, thirty-six miles from Fenway, was shunned and ridiculed by his colleagues. As Aeschylus knew, exile doesn?t dampen the inner flames, it fans them. Powers walked about Manhattan subsisting on his unreasonable dreams of hope, becoming leaner but prouder and more defiant. Such people are dangerous, and by 1965 Powers was poised to commit a desperate...
...Cellar, a restaurant on East Fifty-fifth Street, hidden in a sea of pinstriped suits at cocktail hour. Significantly, Powers was not alone. He was huddling with others who shared his misery and his sense of mission. The names they whispered were foreign to midtown Manhattan. Not Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, and Joe but Ruth (as a pitcher), Foxx, Williams, and Dom. The group recounted bygone Boston glories and dared to predict future victories. From such hushed intercourse, movements are born. These renegades with their neckties, bow ties, wingtips, and dedication to the Sox weren?t unlike Hancock, Revere...
...twelve, fourteen guys together and have a couple of cocktails,? Powers told me in 1985 when first I met him, and asked him about the BLOHARDS. He was treating me to a nice lunch at the Yale Club in midtown Manhattan, which has also, in 2004 and ?05, served as the site of the most recent BLOHARDS luncheons. ?We were basically transplanted New Englanders. We didn?t call ourselves the BLOHARDS then. That came a couple of years later, when I was thinking about that benevolent-loyal-order stuff of the Grangers back in Uxbridge...
...BLOHARDS all over the lot. There was a big BLOHARD in Section 22, Row 21, Seat 14 (names withheld). Seat 14 is a school administrator from Manhattan who sheepishly admitted to me that he was ?playing hooky.? He had called too late to get a seat on the bus, but had driven up nonetheless...
...Avalon Project: Hiroshima and Nagasaki A comprehensive site on the number of casualties, the aftermath and types of long-term injuries suffered from atomic bombs. Be sure to check out the Manhattan Project Investigating Group - these Americans were sent to Hiroshima and Nagasaki one month after the bomb to report on the devastation...