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Blackbeard, the Pirate (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio), an expensively Technicolored penny dreadful, casts Robert Newton as the infamous 18th century privateer Edward Teach, popularly known as Blackbeard. In this fanciful biography, Blackbeard is as blackhearted a buccaneer as ever sailed the Spanish Main. As one of his own crew puts it, he "would make the flesh crawl on a squid." His shaggy beard daintily decorated with red ribbons, Blackbeard goes about flogging, stabbing and stringing up his enemies with the greatest of gusto, laughing fiendishly all the while. He cuts his rivals' throats, runs them through the gizzards...
...warm-up for its match at 5:30 p.m. this afternoon against the M.I.T. freshmen at the Tech gym, the Yardling squash team yesterday defeated Newton freshmen...
Other Massachusetts signers of the petition included Dr. Herbert Gezork, President of the Andover-Newton Theological School, Dr. Gerald Barnes of Boston University, Dr. Vida D. Scudder of Wellesley College, and Professor Florence Converse, also of Wellesley...
Family & Early Years: Born in the Boston suburb of West Newton in 1893 of a well-to-do family. His father, John Wingate Weeks, was a Boston broker, onetime Senator from Massachusetts, and Secretary of War under Harding and Coolidge. At Harvard, "Sinnie" Weeks was a classmate (1914) of Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall and Harvard's President James B. Conant. A World War I artillery captain in the 26th (Yankee) Division, Weeks is still a faithful member of the Dugout Club, an association of former Y.D. officers...
...founder of Boston's first Young Men's Republican Club, Weeks developed an early passion for politics. "When you sit around the breakfast table as a boy and hear politics discussed daily, you are bound to develop an interest," he says. He was elected mayor of Newton in 1929, announced at his inauguration: "I want to make it plain that it is going to be my endeavor to run this city as nearly as possible along business lines." Nosed out for the Republican nomination for Senator by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. in 1936, he was appointed...