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...former lifeblood of the city faring beneath the limelight of the Pru? It is not faring well. Boston's major problem as a harbor is usually summed up in two words: New York. Boston has never really recovered from those years in the mid-1800's when the upstart Knickerbockers took away not only the prestige, but most of the business, of the foreign trade. When domestic trade came to be handled almost entirely by railroads and trucks, Boston had to compete for the increasingly-needed foreign trade with the already established business and commercial center of the nation. (This...
...PEACEMAKERS, by Richard B. Morris. Historians have traditionally assumed that France was the loyal friend of American independence. Not so, says Historian Morris in this study of the political maneuvers that led to the Peace of Paris (1783). France tried to scuttle the upstart republic, but the attempt was averted by three Yankees (Jay, Franklin and Adams) who played a bad hand so skillfully that they won the better part...
...PEACEMAKERS, by Richard B. Morris. Historians have traditionally assumed that France was the loyal friend of American independence. Not so, says Historian Morris in this exhaustive study of the political maneuvers that led up to the Peace of Paris (1783). The Bourbon monarchy tried to scuttle the upstart republic, but the attempt was averted at the peace table by three shrewd Yankee leaders (Jay, Franklin and Adams) who played a bad hand so skillfully that they won the better part...
...knowledge of history oft strips the veneer from the upstart. Anent Teddy Kennedy's tear-jerking plea [Oct. 29] that the family of Judicial Nominee Frank Morrissey were so poor that their shoes were "held together with wooden pegs," he discloses his complete and puerile ignorance of skilled custom cobbling. For a long time, handcrafted shoes and boots had soles and heels secured by hardwood pegs. This produced a beautiful, unsewn appearance, and the pegs wore down commensurately with the leather, avoiding the damage to elegant floors and the skidding on sidewalks caused by nails that wear more slowly...
Yale's win over Cornell gave the upstart Elis a 2-1 Ivy record and dropped the Big Red to 0-2-1 in the standings. Yale's Court Shevelson ran the opening kick-off 22 yards for a touchdown and the Elis built up a 21-7 halftime lead. Cornell cut the margin to seven points in the third quarter, but after that the Big Red was stopped twice inside the Yale...