The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from August 1992:
. . . after Brunansky bails out Red Sox
Aug 01, 1992; ... Sometimes the oversights of baseball executives aremind-boggling. Contending teams can put themselves over the hump by makingtrades in the second half of the year. There are certain players whoseem adept at making significant contributions down the stretch.Especially those ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Aug 01, 1992 ...Q. Where did the word "bedlam" come from? A.P., NewtonA. According to the Arcade Dictionary of Word Origins, the word is acontraction of "Bethlehem." It comes from the Hospital of St. Maryof Bethlehem, founded in 1247 by Simon FitzMary, Sheriff of London,England. Situated outside ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Aug 01, 1992 ... Q. What can you tell me about Enya, the Irish pop singer? How isher name pronounced?K.K., Tilton, N.H.A. According to People magazine, Enya was christened Eithne NiBhraonain (Eithne is pronounced "Enya" in Irish) 30 years ago inGweedore, Co. Donegal, Ireland. One of nine children ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Aug 01, 1992 ... Q. How many unsolved murders are there in the United States?H.I., TauntonA. A spokeswoman for the FBI in Quantico, Va., says the number isprobably "in the 20,000s, or so." But she could not come up with adefinitive number, she said, because to the best of her knowledge"that statistic ...
August '88 lesson not lost on Clinton
Aug 01, 1992; ... With the arrival today of August -- the month in which MichaelS. Dukakis lost his advantage in 1988 -- the campaign of Gov. BillClinton is acutely aware of the precedent and determined not torepeat it. Clinton and his running mate, Sen. Al Gore of Tennessee, havecampaigned ...
Girl, 13, charges attack at camp; 3 are arrested
Aug 01, 1992; ... A 13-year-old girl attending hockey camp at Babson College inWellesley said three teen-age males dragged her into the woods,tore off her clothes and beat her yesterday morning, according topolice. Arrested and charged with indecent assault and battery on a childunder 14 ...
Mass. Bank in Brockton is 11th bank failure of '92
Aug 01, 1992; ... Massachusetts Bank and Trust Co., owned by controversialbusinessman Edward S. Buchanan, was taken over by the Federal DepositInsurance Corp. yesterday, becoming the 11th bank in the state tofail this year. While regulators blamed the failure in part on mismanagement ...
Schmidt has picked up some inside pointers
Aug 01, 1992; ... OLYMPIC NOTEBOOK BARCELONA -- Oscar Schmidt learned something last night, justin case he ever plays against the American Dream Team again. "If I play inside against them again, I will not take the ballinside as much," he pointed out after the 127-83 US rout ....
Study sees deficit of $20.9m at BCH by '96 Mission to come under scrutiny
Aug 01, 1992; ... By 1996, Boston City Hospital could face an annual $20.9million deficit if current declines in admissions and statereimbursement are not reversed as the mortgage comes due for the newhospital under construction, a fiscal analysis says. The shortfall is projected to grow from an ...
Jobless benefits cut by 6 weeks
Aug 01, 1992; ... The federal government has cut from 26 to 20 the number ofweeks of emergency jobless benefits Massachusetts residents cancollect after exhausting their state unemployment payments, stateofficials said yesterday. The US Department of Labor made the reduction based on a ...
Exhibition matches draw US coach's ire
Aug 01, 1992; ... BOXING NOTEBOOK BADALONA, Spain -- US Olympic boxing coach Joe Byrd has seenabout all the showboating he intends to stomach. Yesterday Byrd growled at his son, middleweight Chris Byrd, forwhat he considered a bit too much entertaining and not enoughfighting off the ...
Bush makes case for welfare changes
Aug 01, 1992; ... RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- President Bush sought to depict himselfyesterday as the advocate of real change in the nation's welfaresystem, while accusing Democrats of favoring more reliance onWashington and a costly status quo. In a breakfast speech in strongly conservative Riverside ...
CORN ON THE CURB --
Aug 01, 1992 ...Ralph Churley shucks corn outside his fruit and vegetable ...
IN A LATHER --
Aug 01, 1992 ... Melissa Vogel, 10, scrapes off shaving cream applied to a balloonduring Wood ...
THE BEAR ESSENTIALS --
Aug 01, 1992 ... Jeanette Guzman keeps a watchful eye on her teddy bear, beingtransported by her fiance, Justin ...
Cindy Chin, 36 Crusader for battered women
Aug 01, 1992 ... Cindy Chin, a longtime advocate for women's rights and acrusader for battered women in Massachusetts and elsewhere, died ofcancer Wednesday in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She was 36. Miss Chin was born in Boston, graduated from Wellesley College in1977 and from Simmons ...
CLIFFORD ARRAIGNED --
Aug 01, 1992 ... Clark Clifford is escorted into court yesterday, where he pleadedinnocent to charges ...
Clinton handles tough passes on court Black youths in Arkansas basketball league throw candidate some tough questions
Aug 01, 1992; ... NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Gov. Bill Clinton came to the communitycenter basketball court expecting to shoot baskets for the networktelevision cameras and deliver a light speech to the youths in aMidnight Basketball League. But he was slam-dunked, both on thecourt and off. Although ...
CORRECTION
Aug 01, 1992 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, yesterday's review of afilm now showing at the Coolidge ...
CORRECTION
Aug 01, 1992; ...CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, two Page 1 ...
Tip of the hat for courageous effort in pool
Aug 01, 1992; ... DAN SHAUGHNESSY BARCELONA -- US swimmer Ron Karnaugh kept looking at the hat --the ragged straw hat with the brown band. This was the hat his dad wore 18 years ago when he first watchedRon swim. This was the hat his dad wore when they went fishingtogether. This was the ...
Paint, plywood and pride Inmates express community faith as they seal abandoned buildings
Aug 01, 1992; ... At another time, before he was incarcerated, Willie Jenningsmight have been standing in front of an abandoned building like thisone, selling cocaine. But on this summer morning in Roxbury, Jennings was at workboarding up the cavernous, empty building on Dudley Street that, ...
The naked truth about `Don't Dress'
Aug 01, 1992; ... DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER Play in two acts by Marc Camoletti. Adapted by Robin Hawdon. Directed by Pamela Hunt. Set, Herbert Senn, Helen Pond. Costumes, Howard Kaplan. Lighting, Joanne Zaharis At: The Cape Playhouse, Dennis, through tonight ...
New era for organ transplants
Aug 01, 1992 ... A baboon liver has replaced -- successfully for a month now --the failing liver of a 35-year-old man. And this time, theanimal-to-human organ transfer holds real promise for revolutionizingthe transplant of livers, hearts, kidneys, lungs and other vitalorgans into humans. If ...
$185m in aid welcomed by school chiefs
Aug 01, 1992; ... School superintendents across the state say the $185 million inadditional education aid approved by the Legislature earlier thisweek will alleviate some of the problems plaguing Massachusettsschools. The commonwealth's urban school districts, which have beenparticularly hard ...
The politics of interest rates
Aug 01, 1992 ... George Bush has good reason to regret that he lacks enough timeto be patient about the effects declining interest rates might haveon the American economy. Little more than three months remain beforevoters will judge his stewardship of the country and their ...
Wendell P. Eldridge, 76 North Falmouth snack bar owner
Aug 01, 1992 ... Wendell P. Eldridge, the owner and operator of Corner Snack Barin North Falmouth and a Falmouth Town Meeting member, died yesterdayin his North Falmouth home. He was 76. Mr. Eldridge was born in Malden and grew up in Dennis andYarmouth. He served in the Army in World War II with ...
A Massachusetts housing investment
Aug 01, 1992 ... Pension funds control assets worth hundreds of billions ofdollars. An experimental program promoted by the Massachusettstreasurer, Joseph Malone, offers the promise that a bit of that moneywill be invested in ways that directly benefit lower-income residentsof the state. ...
Goodbye, July
Aug 01, 1992 ... Here it is, the start of August, with the days gettingnoticeably shorter, but somehow Boston has yet to feel the fullimpact of summertime. Small wonder. July, usually the peak month ofthe season, was anything but peak this year. Downright chilly, in fact. The average daily ...
MUDDY OUTLOOK --
Aug 01, 1992 ... Bob Anderson of Boston soaks in some sun and clay at the beach atGay Head, Martha's ...
New bishop to investigate Porter allegations
Aug 01, 1992; ... Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, who will be installed as head of theFall River diocese on Aug. 11, will investigate why Catholic churchofficials failed to strongly reprimand Rev. James Porter followingallegations that the priest sexually abused children, arepresentative of the bishop said ...
FLAG WAIVER --
Aug 01, 1992 ... A sudden wind blows Old Glory on a US soldier's head during afarewell ...
Fossas gets his man
Aug 01, 1992; ... Tony Fossas doesn't stay around long -- but just long enough todo his primary job of getting lefthanded hitters out of there. The Red Sox' lefty reliever, who played high school ball back inthe '70s at St. Mary's of Brookline, did what he does best yesterdayafternoon at Fenway ...
The show will go on at Foxboro
Aug 01, 1992; ...A request for a preliminary injunction filed byRaynham-Taunton Dog Track against Foxboro Park and the State RacingCommission was denied by Suffolk Superior Court Judge Sandra L.Hamlin yesterday.Raynham contended Foxboro had forfeited its right to simulcastSaratoga when it ...
2 plead guilty to Medicaid theft and fraud
Aug 01, 1992; ... Two men who in separate schemes stole a total of nearly$360,000 in Medicaid funds from the state were ordered to serve timebehind bars yesterday after pleading guilty in Suffolk Superior Courtto theft and fraud charges. Donald S. Dalton, 32, of Wakefield, admitted in court he ...
Lenore Friedrich, 90 Married to noted scholar
Aug 01, 1992 ... Lenore (Pelham) Friedrich, the widow of the noted Harvardprofessor of constitutional government, Carl Joachim Friedrich, diedJuly 16 in a nursing home in Madison, Wis., of the effects ofAlzheimer's disease. She was 90. Mrs. Friedrich was born in Chicago and educated in local ...
State GOP chair sought Weld aid in fund-raising
Aug 01, 1992; ... The chairman of the state Republican Party, who recently soughtto distance himself from questionable fund-raising activities of theCommonwealth Business Council, prepared a memorandum last year askingtop state Republicans to lend their support to the ...
Empty lots offer fertile soil Private group helps seniors, inner-city residents convert blighted spaces into garden spots
Aug 01, 1992; ... In a rose garden in Highland Park dedicated to his late wife,70-year-old Victor Pomare of Roxbury talked about how with the helpof Boston Urban Gardeners the plot was transformed, first from anunsightly vacant lot, then into a vegetable garden for the elderlyand ultimately to a thing of ...
Cognitive difference in gay men suggested Brain nerve bundle found to be larger
Aug 01, 1992; ... A pencil-sized bundle of nerve fibers that link the right andleft hemispheres of the brain is substantially larger in homosexualmen than in their heterosexual men, according to a study publishedtoday. The finding, which involves a portion of the brain that handlescognitive ...
Guns N' Roses cancellation leaves fans in the lurch
Aug 01, 1992; ...contributing reporter Shanthy Nambiar assisted in the preparation of this report. FOXBORO -- Cindy Husack and Chris Mailloux had no idea what todo next. The 18-year-olds forlornly walked around the parking lot ofFoxboro Stadium yesterday afternoon with heavy ...
Aiming for torrid start
Aug 01, 1992; ... BARCELONA -- Gwen Torrence grew up in a project in Atlanta, andglimpses of the larger world outside were few and far between. "Ithink what keeps me going is that I'm a survivor," she has said. "Itfeels good to finally give them something back since I didn't haveanything. Track is a way ...
Haverhill man ruled competent
Aug 01, 1992; ... Irwin Hartford, the Haverhill man arrested in the murder of13-year-old Philip J. Davis, was ruled competent to stand trialduring a hearing yesterday in Haverhill District Court.Hartford, 28, of Haverhill, was charged with first-degree murderfor fatally bludgeoning Davis ...
Malone calls meeting on Hynes appropriation Treasurer says $3m should go toward general fund or tourism
Aug 01, 1992; ... State Treasurer Joseph D. Malone has called an emergencymeeting next Friday of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority,of which he serves as chairman, to discuss the Legislature'sappropriation of $3 million for the Hynes Convention Center -- moneyMalone says he knew nothing ...
By taxi to a rose-filled island campsite
Aug 01, 1992; ... LOVELL ISLANDThe sweet waft from thousands of wild roses escorted our family fromthe dock to our campsite. One of the resident island managers warnedus about the "killer" rabbits that come out at dusk and dawn. Welooked back at the Boston skyline. We watched the day's last MDCwater ...
Semi tough Woods dominates quarterfinal opponent
Aug 01, 1992; ... MILTON -- You have to wonder if he can sense any pressure atall after reaching the semifinals of the 45th US Junior AmateurChampionship at Wollaston GC yesterday. Now that Tiger Woods is twomatches away from becoming the event's first two-time winner, hisobjective is simple ...
William R. Keany, 82 Was Carnegie Institute dean
Aug 01, 1992 ... William R. Keany, the former dean of the Carnegie Institute ofMedical Technology, died Wednesday of a heart ailment in theHitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, N.H. He was 82. Mr. Keany lived in Milton and had a summer home on a farm inGrafton, N.H. He was born in Boston ...
Pentagon is sending 2,400 GIs to Kuwait Joint exercises to show US `commitment' in gulf
Aug 01, 1992; ... WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is sending 2,400 troops to Kuwaitfor joint training exercises to signal Iraq that the United Statesremains determined to restrain Saddam Hussein and protect US alliesin the Persian Gulf region. Pete Williams, the Defense Department spokesman, ...
Reputed mobster arraigned
Aug 01, 1992; ... Reputed mobster Dennis Lepore pleaded not guilty at hisarraignment yesterday in federal court on charges in connection withan alleged scheme to bribe Teamsters officials. Lepore, 45, formerly of Boston and currently serving a 14-yearsentence at a federal prison in Florida for ...
Loan defaults imperil aid to 1,200 schools
Aug 01, 1992; ... WASHINGTON -- Twelve hundred schools across the country,including Roxbury Community College and two other Boston-areapostsecondary schools, are in danger of losing federal student aidbecause of high loan default rates, the US Department of Educationsaid yesterday. According ...
Borg, Volkov get strung out
Aug 01, 1992; ... BROOKLINE -- Bjorn Borg, the man who brought the headband toprofessional tennis, has brought nothing but winning tennis wheneverhe's played singles at Longwood Cricket Club. The 36-year-old Swede, now in the 14th month of his comebacktrail after retiring in 1983, brought a ...
Lotus wins a major victory in copyright battle
Aug 01, 1992; ... Lotus Development Corp. won a major victory yesterday in itsprotracted copyright battle with Borland International Ltd. when afederal judge ruled that Borland infringed on certain parts of Lotus'1-2-3 spreadsheet software. "Lotus 1-2-3 is copyrighted," wrote US District Court ...
LPGA lead is shared by three Walton is in healthy position
Aug 01, 1992; ... CANTON -- Robin Walton shares the lead of the LPGA Welch'sClassic, but she discovered last May that there are more importantthings than leading golf tournaments. Walton, who fashioned a 5-under-par 67 at Blue Hill CC yesterdayto share the second-round lead with Belgian bomber ...
An extraordinary man
Aug 01, 1992; ... Some say there is no deus ex machina, no force that intervenes inthe play of life, but the middle-aged man will not buy that. He was driving aimlessly in Boston on the night he was feelingsadness for others and a sizable load of self-pity to boot, and thereon the corner of ...
Hoping it pays off in long run Cross-country champion Jennings covets underdog role for the 10,000
Aug 01, 1992; ... BARCELONA -- The year began on the snow-spattered streets andtrails of New Hampshire. It crested for the first time when LynnJennings won her third consecutive World Cross-Country Championshipin Boston's Franklin Park March 21 and broke down in tears for thefirst time after a race. She'd ...
No getting away from hardship
Aug 01, 1992; ... FOXBOROUGH -- The State Police cruiser was just outside thegate. "We're here 24 hours a day," said Frank Mendes, "so thatnobody tries to get a horse out. So far nobody's tried." Not far from the policeman, posted on the wall of the securityshack, was a hand-lettered sign. Food ...
Rev. Joseph Manning Taught at Holy Cross, Fairfield
Aug 01, 1992 ... Rev. Joseph M. Manning, a Jesuit for 58 years who taughtclassics, German, theology and English at Fairfield University inConnecticut and at Holy Cross College, died Thursday at the CampionCenter in Weston. He was 80. Father Manning was born in Dorchester, and graduated from ...
BIG WHEELS --
Aug 01, 1992 ...A statue of former Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung stands over acollection of cars used by top Chinese officials on display yesterdayin Beijing in conjunction ...
Leon Margolis, 84 Former Filene's manager
Aug 01, 1992 ... Leon Margolis, the former general merchandise manager forFilene's and a consultant to the Agency for InternationalDevelopment, died Wednesday in Winchester Hospital. He was 84 andlived in Brookline. Mr. Margolis, who was born in Chelsea, graduated from BostonEnglish High ...
BEEF'S THE BEEF --
Aug 01, 1992 ...Animal-rights activists rally at Moscow's McDonald's restaurantyesterday to discourage Russians from eating meat. The protest wasorganized by ...
Martin McInerney, 84 Billboard advertising executive
Aug 01, 1992 ... Martin Joseph McInerney, a billboard advertising executive, diedThursday in his sleep in his home in Osterville. He was 84. Mr. McInerney was born in Boston and graduated from the BostonCommerce Business School. He served in the Navy during World War II and rose to the rank ...
Dr. Ernest J. McKenna Was Boston orthodontist; at 95
Aug 01, 1992 ... Dr. Ernest J. McKenna of Orleans, a pioneering Bostonorthodontist, died of congestive heart failure Thursday in the CapeRegency Nursing Home in Centerville. He was 95. Dr. McKenna was born in Roxbury and graduated from Boston EnglishHigh School. In 1917 he graduated from the ...
`Bonham' leaves crowd howling for more
Aug 01, 1992; ... TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Fellows of Tanglewood Music Center At: Theater-Concert Hall Tuesday LENOX -- Tuesday evening's program of the 1992 Festival ofContemporary Music at Tanglewood was a nosegay of tributes from onecomposer to ...
THE PRINCESS
Aug 01, 1992 ...of Wales, right, meets actor Tom Cruise, left, wife and co-starNicole Kidman and director Ron ...
Bubba vote
Aug 01, 1992; ... With the Democrats fielding what has been dubbed the DoubleBubba ticket, and politicians of all stripes courting the so-calledBubba vote, we deemed it an auspicious time to check in with themother of all Bubbas: Charles (Bubba) Smith, the former All-Prodefensive lineman with the ...
NEA group spars over rejections Some members challenge Radice's grant vetoes
Aug 01, 1992; ...WASHINGTON -- A heated exchange broke out at yesterday's NationalCouncil on the Arts meeting, as council members alternatelychallenged and defended the acting chairman of the National Endowmentfor the Arts for rejecting two grants last May. One of those grants would have ...