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...space, and get clearance from Harvard University Police Department before takeoff. Mark Van Baalen, a lecturer in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said he was excited to see a revived interest in aviation at Harvard. Since the school organized the first Harvard Air Meet at Squantum Point in 1923, there were a lot of attempts to reincarnate the Harvard Flying Club that has been around in one form or another since the 1920s, according to Van Baalen, who received his pilot’s license in 1969. “[Reviving an aviation club] is a good idea...
...Stahl's first two seasons at the Crimson helm, Harvard lost to Camp Thomas, Boston Coast Guard, Camp Edwards, Carrier A.S.U., Squantum Naval Air, PT Boat STC, and Cushing Hospital...
Women's ace Kerry Melville once asked me, "Aown't yew tayken enoof pictchahs of me, sonny?" at a Slims tourney at Squantum last year. I had been focusing on her for four games in one second-round match, and she was winning. A thin-skinned grouch, Melville has been on the verge of winning major tournaments for years but has never been able to break a final round block against the hierarchy of the game: King and Court...
When Margaret Court finishes each match in this week's stop on the Virginia Slims women's professional tennis tour at the Boston Harbor Marina Tennis Club in Squantum--she lets her poker face relax into a smile for a few autograph seekers and then walks into the carpeted press room behind the grandstand...
...Touch of Genius. The names of the ships that Salmon sought to immortalize are mostly forgotten, but his views of the waterfront retain their honesty and vigor. For his backdrops, he rarely ventured farther north than Nahant or south beyond Squantum, and his finest canvases detail the disciplined confusion of the wharves in Boston's central harbor. Beyond being a realist, Salmon also had a touch of genius. He was the first painter to bring English landscape techniques to the New World; in fact, his style was much imitated by New England artists. Says Dartmouth's Wilmerding: "Anyone...