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Because some U.S. fliers went visiting in Essex, England, a chubby 9-year-old with a prodigious gift for piano-playing arrived in Watertown, Mass, last week. The youngster is blind Jimmy Osborne, who never studied music beyond listening to the BBC and to phonograph records. Now he is going to study at the Perkins Institution for the Blind...
John T. Noonan-Louise Carroll (Watertown...
Starting outside the Newell Boat House, the Handicap Course winds along the river bank up past the Metropolitan Driving Club almost to the Watertown line before swinging back toward Soldiers Field...
...first Saltonstall to reach the New World came here with an economic head start, and the family has never lost that advantage. The first American Saltonstall, Sir Richard, arrived with John Winthrop in 1630, and founded the Boston suburb of Watertown. He stayed in the New World only a year, just long enough to remember the infant Harvard College in his will. But his son got elected to the Massachusetts legislature and fathered the family's first Harvard graduate, class of 1659. (This Harvard man, Nathaniel Saltonstall, was later a judge, and with enough of the family astuteness...
...brief interlude broke the continuity. On June 26, 1775, the Provincial Congress at Watertown "resolved that the President's house in Cambridge be taken, cleaned, prepared and furnished for the reception of Generals Washington and lee." On July 2 Washington arrived and temporarily set up his headquarters there...