The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from August 1995:
RED SNEAKERS' EASY FIT: COMEDY, CLASSICAL MUSIC
Aug 01, 1995; ... When the Composers in Red Sneakers first came onto the scene the1960s were a living memory, and their fun packaging of non-fun (i.e.,classical) music got an all-round hearty welcome. The kids are allright, or these kids are -- that seemed to be the general message --even if they've got ...
Barbara Sherrill named Copley CFO
Aug 01, 1995; ... Copley Pharmarceutical Inc., which nearly five weeks ago announcedthe sudden departure of its chief financial officer, yesterday namedBarbara Sherrill to fill the post. Sherrill succeeds Steven N. Tannenbaum, who left to run a smallmanufacturing firm in Walpole. He still advises ...
Two join Beram
Aug 01, 1995 ... Bob Sonn and Ted Huber have joined the George Beram & Co. Inc., ofNewton, the largest independent, full-service, actuarial and benefitsfirm in New England. Sonn, who owned his own company and was a senior consultant to aBig 6 accounting firm in Boston, has created computer programs ...
O'Neill joins Fleet
Aug 01, 1995; ... The chief executive of Aeltus Investment Management Inc. hasresigned after Aetna Life & Casualty Co. rejected his bid to buy theHartford money management firm. Thomas M. O'Neill will leave Aeltus, which has more than $21billion under management, to become managing director and ...
US withholds its OK of Mass. welfare law
Aug 01, 1995; ... BURLINGTON, Vt. -- President Clinton yesterday said hisadministration has held up approval of Massachusetts' welfare reformlaw because of a proposed state requirement that able-bodiedrecipients be dropped from the rolls after two years, whether or notthey have found ...
Moakley status upgraded to good
Aug 01, 1995; ...Rep. J. Joseph Moakley's condition was upgraded from fair to goodyesterday, three weeks after the South Boston Democrat underwent aliver transplant at the University of Virginia Medical Center. "Hisliver is functioning well, and he is alert ...
For viewers, changes not expected to be big deal
Aug 01, 1995; ... Back in the 1950s, when the Mickey Mouse Club was beamed acrossthe United States every afternoon, Walt Disney's Mouseketeers openedby singing, "Who's the leader of the club that's made for you andme?" Forty years later, the question was answered yesterday with theannouncement ...
Successful screen test Donovan outlasts Chiang, gets into the big picture at US Pro
Aug 01, 1995; ... NEWTON -- So what's Tim Donovan going to do with his prize moneyfrom the US Pro Tennis Championships? He's thinking television set,something really big, better than the 20-inch Sony Trinitron that hepurchased two months ago. Donovan, the former Brown University standout who is now ...
Rte. 128 travel to be slow again today
Aug 01, 1995 ... Traffic delays are expected again today on Route 128 near theHighland Avenue exit in Needham, but police said there should be farless bumper-to-bumper traffic than yesterday. Public works officials will still be working to fix Sunday'ssewer line break, but only one southbound lane ...
A balk call on Saberhagen Mets throw Sox a curve in trade talks for righty
Aug 01, 1995; ... DETROIT -- The trade of Bret Saberhagen to the Red Sox was apromising possibility by midday and early evening yesterday, butsometime after that it was dying slowly as the Red Sox and the Metscouldn't quite agree on a package. There was still time before themidnight deadline to get a deal ...
Tanglewood triumvirate: the good, the bad and the greedy
Aug 01, 1995; ... BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor At: Tanglewood, Saturday night ITZHAK PERLMAN, violin, with EMANUEL AX, piano At: Tanglewood, Sunday afternoon TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA Robert Spano, ...
JUMPING IN HEAD FIRST
Aug 01, 1995 ...John Critchley does a flip off Old Mill Bridge in Cohasset andinto the river yesterday as he and ...
CHAIR AND CHAIR ALIKE
Aug 01, 1995 ...Sunbathers on a Commonwealth Avenue patio have their pick ...
Population changes
Aug 01, 1995 ...The number of births in America fell below 4 million last yearfor the first time this decade. At the same time, deaths hit arecord high. Both trends represent natural changes as the nation's populationages, according to the Census Bureau's 1995 Population Profile of theUnited ...
Sox are left with Stanton Saberhagen too costly; they settle for reliever
Aug 01, 1995; ...DETROIT -- The Mike Stanton deal had been sitting there for sometime, but it was one the Red Sox would rather have kept on thebackburner. That's because they had set their sights much higher --on Bret Saberhagen. But when Saberhagen and four other possibilities proved toocostly ...
2 guards stabbed in downtown hotel
Aug 01, 1995; ... Two security guards at the Omni Parker House were slashed lastnight in the lobby of the hotel by a man they were escorting from thehotel bar, police said. Details from police were sketchy late last night, but police saida man stabbed a hotel security guard around 9 p.m. and then ...
Spence cites know-how with public agencies
Aug 01, 1995; ... Boston schools superintendent finalist Lewis (Harry) Spence, theoutgoing state-appointed Chelsea receiver, said last night that hedoesn't "know education," but has had 25 years' experience rightingthree dismal public agencies. "I have worked in reconstructing public systems that ...
Sox are left with Stanton Saberhagen too costly; they settle for reliever
Aug 01, 1995; ...DETROIT -- The hurricane that was supposed to hit Florida todayhit baseball last night. A trading frenzy saw David Wells, who wassupposed to start for the Tigers against the Red Sox tonight, go tothe Cincinnati Reds. Bret Saberhagen, the coveted target of the RedSox until late yesterday ...
Police seize items from home of Somerville slaying suspect
Aug 01, 1995; ... SOMERVILLE -- Investigators seized two knives, a bayonet, clothingand a photograph from the home of Edward O'Brien Jr., the 15-year-oldcharged with stabbing to death his 42-year-old neighbor. However, police do not believe the knives were used in the attack. Janet Downing was ...
Detroit reduced to arms dealer
Aug 01, 1995; ... DETROIT -- At the All-Star break, the Tigers were only three gamesbehind the Red Sox and shaping up as the division's Cinderella team.Tonight they enter a three-game series against Boston in fourthplace, 8 1/2 games back and virtually out of the race for a playoffspot. They are 3-14 ...
A Main Street marriage, rated G Disney, ABC merger reinforces status quo in entertainment
Aug 01, 1995; ... Talk all you want about 500 channels and narrowcasting to nichemarkets, yesterday's announcement that Walt Disney Co. would buyCapital Cities/ABC Inc. was a $19 billion vote of confidence inbroadcasting and the mass market. This, said industry observers, is a marriage of the ...
Howard G. Rogers, 80; invented instant color film for Polaroid
Aug 01, 1995; ... Howard G. Rogers of Weston and Lovell, Maine, retired director ofresearch at Polaroid Corp. and the inventor of instant color film,died Saturday in his home in Weston. He was 80. Born in Houghton Lake, Mich., Mr. Rogers' extensive knowledge ofoptics, physics and chemistry was ...
`Sugar' will be up for Spicy at Rock
Aug 01, 1995; ... SALEM, N.H. -- The Erdenheim Farm's Plenty Of Sugar, a game winnerof the Rockingham Budweiser Breeders' Cup Handicap last month, hasbeen assigned topweight of 118 pounds by racing secretary JimPambianchi Jr. for Sunday's $100,000 Spicy Living Sweepstakes.Twenty-three fillies and mares ...
Private firm is probing for residency violations
Aug 01, 1995; ...Mayor Menino predicted yesterday that up to 15 Boston publicemployees would be found in violation of the city's residencyrequirement by two private detectives hired to investigate residencyscofflaws. Last April, when the city began enforcing its residencyrequirement, observers ...
Registry's move upsets patrons Return to Nashua street locale takes many by surprise
Aug 01, 1995; ... Frederick Gonzalez spent 40 minutes yesterday driving from hisRevere home to the Registry of Motor Vehicles Ruggles Center office.Instead of finding open doors, he found signs reading: "We'vemoved." "I can't believe it," said Gonzalez, who arrived at the closedbuilding at 2:30 p.m ....
EGADS! Red Sox' glove story may turn into a tear-jerker
Aug 01, 1995; ... DETROIT -- Bill Buckner never will live down his embarrassingerror in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. But if there's a Bostonteam capable of matching that gaffe, and even surpassing it, causingits fans more heartache if and when it reaches the postseason, it isthe 1995 Red ...
MDC's new chief ranger surveys terrain of job
Aug 01, 1995; ... When he is sworn in today as chief ranger of the MetropolitanDistrict Commission's sprawling system of parks and reservations,Peter Church will begin a new effort to protect the parks by issuingtickets to vandals, parking violators and other transgressors. Church has also been ...
A lucky lady for Lukas Serena's Song stayed on beam in Haskell
Aug 01, 1995; ...She had done it before and she did it again. On Sunday, thefilly Serena's Song defeated a group of mediocre 3-year-old males towin the $500,000 Haskell Handicap at Monmouth Park, just as she haddone in the $600,000 Jim Beam at Turfway Park April 1. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas has ...
Abington crash kills woman from Quincy; 4 others hurt
Aug 01, 1995; ... An 83-year-old Quincy woman was killed Sunday when her daughter,blinded by the sun, drove across Route 58 in Abington and smashedinto another car, police said yesterday. Four other people wereinjured in the crash. Catherine Gillooly of Quincy was a passenger in a car driven ...
Arias runs a tight ship Racket change is his key to victory over Chang at Longwood
Aug 01, 1995; ...BROOKLINE -- With the first set over in his match against AlbertChang in last night's US Pro Championships at Longwood Cricket Club,Jimmy Arias decided to make a switch in rackets. No, not to agraphite midsized model. He stayed with the Wilson Pro Staff, JackKramer wooden model, but ...
Learning his way around block Rookie runner Martin is in new territory
Aug 01, 1995; ... SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- Curtis Martin intends to run for a living, butto get the chance to do it, he knows he must take first things first,which is why he spends his post-practice time letting pass-rushingoutside lienbackers Chris Slade and Willie McGinest abuse him. The rookie from ...
Joseph Leo Pistorio, 87 A violinist, performed with Pops
Aug 01, 1995 ... Joseph Leo Pistorio of Sandwich, a violinist who performed withthe Boston Pops for many years, died of arrhythmia Sunday in FalmouthHospital. He was 87. Born in Boston, Mr. Pistorio graduated from Commerce High Schooland attended Boston Conservatory. He performed with the Boston ...
He'll back down
Aug 01, 1995; ...SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- Maybe he shouldn't have done that TVcommercial. Up until then, Vincent Brown had good karma going for him in NewEngland, as well as his more obvious talents. The walking bodysculpture hadn't missed a game since 1992, and that happened onlywhen he was ...
Whitewater fishing expedition: Who cares about fish?
Aug 01, 1995; ... WASHINGTON - Wallowing in Whitewater, the investigative equivalentof punching a pillow, is not for the faint of heart or even of will,but lowered standards in both Congress and journalism have made itabsurdly easy for the faint of mind.In the new congressional Babylon, zealotry ...
Fitchburg youth held in Athol rape
Aug 01, 1995 ... A Fitchburg teen-ager was arraigned yesterday in Orange DistrictCourt on charges of rape in connection with last week's assault ontwo Athol girls at Silver Lake Park in Athol, police said. The17-year-old, whose name police did not release, was held on a $10,000cash bail. He was arrested ...
Shorter delays seen on Rt. 128
Aug 01, 1995 ... Traffic delays are expected again today on Route 128 near theHighland Avenue exit in Needham, but police said there should be farless bumper-to-bumper traffic than yesterday. Public works crewswill still be working to fix Sunday's sewer line break, but only onesouthbound lane will be ...
Trial to begin in shooting death
Aug 01, 1995 ... The murder trial of a former Gloucester man, accused of shootingto death his live-in girlfriend at the end of an abusive 10-yearrelationship, is scheduled to begin this week in ...
Will Disney be invited?
Aug 01, 1995; ... We're not sure about the china pattern, but other details havebeen set for the marriage of Olympic ice skater Nancy Kerrigan andher manager, Jerry Solomon. The wedding will be Sept. 9, at theChurch of the Covenant in Boston, says Mike Levine, Kerrigan's pressagent in LA. A reception ...
Whitey Bulger allegedly tied to drug dealing in S. Boston
Aug 01, 1995; ... A federal grand jury is expected to hand up a fresh list ofcharges today that will flesh out a bare-bones racketeeringindictment against fugitive James J. (Whitey) Bulger, charging Bulgerfor the first time with drug trafficking in his native South Boston. And the evidence against ...
Plans don't call for a pennant this year
Aug 01, 1995; ... Most of us in Red Sox Nation have been there before. We know whatit is not to win a World Series, and the present team couldn't do itif you brought back Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb and Mathewson from theirgraves for the alleged pennant push. This team is average, a .500 team fortunate to be ...
Panel OK's bill on hospital maternity stays
Aug 01, 1995; ... Joining a nationwide movement, a state legislative committeeyesterday approved a bill to require hospitals to keep women for 48hours after uncomplicated vaginal births and 96 hours after aCaesarean section delivery. The legislation, similar to laws recently approved in Maryland ...
2 killed, 3 hurt in accidents on Mass. Pike and in Boylston
Aug 01, 1995; ... Two people were killed and three were injured in separate one-caraccidents yesterday. Rachel Levi, 18, of Dorchester, was killed in the 5:10 a.m.accident on the Massachusetts Turnpike near Newton Centre, policesaid. Levi was thrown about 60 feet from the car and landed ...
South Boston man, 66, found dead in apartment
Aug 01, 1995; ... Residents knew him only as "Mr. Kelly," and most days he would sitout in front of the Old Colony housing development under the shade ofan oak tree. He wore heavy clothes and sipped beers and grumbledabout people on welfare. No one seemed to notice that he was not around the South ...
LOWRIDERS ROLL INTO TOWN The Puerto Rican car craze unites one community while making inroads into others
Aug 01, 1995; ... Son las nueve menos quince. It's a quarter to 9. Saturday nightin the parking lot in front of the Auto Palace on American LegionHighway in Hyde Park, the sky is a smear of gray and pink.Streetlights have come on. A few of the guys and their lowriders -- cars that have ...
Names: Sampson lands US national soccer job
Aug 01, 1995 ... Steve Sampson, who led the US national soccer team to a string ofunexpected successes this summer as interim coach, will get thefull-time job. Sampson, who has been running the team since Aprilfollowing the ouster of Bora Milutinovic, officially will beappointed tomorrow at a news ...
David S. Kunian, 83 A founder of Boston law firm
Aug 01, 1995 ... David S. Kunian, formerly of Swampscott, a founding partner in theBoston law firm of Singer, Stoneham, Kunian and Kurland, diedyesterday at his home in Lake Worth, Fla. He was 83. Mr. Kunian was born in Lynn. He was a graduate of Amherst Collegeand Harvard Law School, and ...
USDA inspection plan isn't kosher to Orthodox Jews
Aug 01, 1995; ... REVERE -- For thousands of years, God's law has prohibitedreligious Jews from eating pork. Now federal law may stop them fromeating any meat at all. It sounds meshugah, but rabbis say the US Department ofAgriculture's sweeping new plan to make meat and poultry safer ...
A below-average standout Schultz upbeat after 84 in USGA Juniors
Aug 01, 1995; ... LONGMEADOW -- Tara Schultz is accustomed to being the only girl. The second-oldest of Wally and Donna Schultz' three daughters,Tara, 15, is the only girl in her family who plays golf, havingpicked up the game as an 8-year-old. Last year as a freshman atLoomis-Chaffee School, ...
Jobs effort gets results; 8,500 youths employed
Aug 01, 1995; ... After a month of "constructive panic" in which Mayor Menino wentdoor-to-door in an effort to get small businesses to create summerjobs, private businesses and public funds put 8,500 teen-agers towork, the mayor said yesterday. "We put more summer jobs out there than at any other ...
Targeting the pay raisers
Aug 01, 1995; ...The Heroes of the People -- Barbara Anderson of Citizens forLimited Taxation, Chip Ford of No Means No, Dorothea Vitrac of LimitsII and the loyalists who have slogged with them through ballotcampaigns to cut taxes, limit terms and restrain government power --are of one mind on last ...
Critics ask why all can't get break on insurance
Aug 01, 1995; ... The state has approved more than 700 plans offering reducedautomobile insurance premiums to members of specific groups in thelast two years, raising questions as to why the insurance industrycannot offer similar discounts to all drivers, two key legislatorscharged yesterday. With ...
Scientists trace infertility in some men to gene
Aug 01, 1995; ... Cambridge scientists have found the first evidence that a geneticdefect can be the sole cause of infertility in some men. Male infertility is usually the result of infections or blockagesor abnormalities in the sperm-making system, but the researchers saidtheir discovery shows that ...
Blade cuts throat of hockey player, 19
Aug 01, 1995; ... A 19-year-old hockey player was seriously injured during a game inHingham last night when another skater accidentally sliced his throatwith his skate blade, officials said. Scott Streule, who lives on the North Shore, was undergoingsurgery at Boston City Hospital after being ...
Alexander Hawes, a noted lawyer who worked in Washington; at 88
Aug 01, 1995 ... Alexander Boyd Hawes, a longtime lawyer in Washington, D.C., diedyesterday at the age of 88 at his summer home in Little Compton, R.I. During his career of more than 40 years in Washington, he firstserved in the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, thenentered private ...
Clinton, Dole spar on welfare plan States' control of funds at issue
Aug 01, 1995; ...BURLINGTON, Vt. -- With the deadline for a plan to overhaulgovernment and balance the budget only two months away, PresidentClinton and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole yesterday revealed thecontinuing gulf between them over what to do about the nation'stroubled welfare ...
Kennedy reports $1.3m debt from 1994
Aug 01, 1995; ... report.WASHINGTON -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, trying to recover from thecostliest campaign of his career, reported a lingering debt of $1.3million in the midyear report he filed yesterday with the FederalElection Commission.Kennedy, who spent $10.5 million to defeat ...
Welfare for Weld?
Aug 01, 1995 ...The Clinton administration has so far granted more than 30separate waivers allowing states to conduct welfare reformexperiments, hoping to find better ways to move recipients fromwelfare to work. But the waiver Gov. Weld submitted forMassachusetts is stalled. Secretary of Health and ...
Welfare for the needy?
Aug 01, 1995 ...Senate majority leader Bob Dole told the nation's governorsyesterday that by the end of the week he will move a welfare reformbill to the Senate floor that goes beyond tinkering. Borrowing from"my old friend Ross Perot," Dole called for "opening up the hood andtotally overhauling the ...
Chewing the fat
Aug 01, 1995 ...All those who visualize a bonfire of their workout tapes orentertain revenge fantasies against their aerobics teachers, takeheart. A cure for the common love handle is on the way. It won't belong before we can belly up to the doctor's office and say, "Give mea shot of leptin," then head ...
Stepping on the insurance breaks
Aug 01, 1995 ...Most Massachusetts residents are wary of redlining, skeptical ofcorporations with friends in high places and hypersensitive about thehigh cost of auto insurance. All three issues are raised by a newplan by Commerce Insurance Co. that offers 10 percent discounts tomembers of the American ...
Weld to ask $5.1m for DSS workers
Aug 01, 1995; ... As a Senate committee continues to investigate the state's fostercare system, a top Weld administration official announced yesterdaythat the governor is poised to ask the Legislature for a $5.1 millionsupplemental budget so the Department of Social Services can hire ...
Disney to get Capital/ABC in $19b deal Entertainment behemoth in the making
Aug 01, 1995; ... In a move that stunned both Hollywood and Wall Street, Walt DisneyCo. yesterday said it would buy Capital Cities/ABC Inc. for $19billion, a deal that would create a giant company whose reach wouldextend to every corner of the entertainment world. The acquisition brings together two ...
Cache of letters offers glimpse of the private Cushing
Aug 01, 1995; ... Sometime shortly before Cardinal Richard Cushing died, 25 yearsago, he apparently asked his staff to destroy his personal papers. "We always thought, `Gee, that's too bad,' " said historian JamesO'Toole. The period from 1944 to 1970 when Cushing was archbishop ofBoston "was an ...
Bedford police officer charged in fatal crash
Aug 01, 1995; ... A Bedford police officer, who has been in eight automobileaccidents in 10 years, was speeding and under the influence ofalcohol when he crashed yesterday in Milton, killing a friend, policeand Registry officials said. Michael McCravy, 27, of Bedford, pleaded not guilty to six ...
HBO takes a plunge into lukewarm depths
Aug 01, 1995; ..."Real Sports" on Home Box Office Sunday night marked the paychannel's plunge into sports journalism and away from boxing andtennis. But the program did not measure up to its promotion. The themes were familiar, pondering football players compromisingtheir bodies and the confusing ...