The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 1996:
Another Alcott work surfaces Harvard find may be first novel
May 01, 1996; ... The manuscript of an unpublished novel by Louisa May Alcott hasbeen discovered at a Harvard University library and has aroused keeninterest from book publishers and movie producers, sight unseen. The newly discovered work, titled "The Inheritance," and believedto be Alcott's ...
Suit alleges a wild-party tone at Astra
May 01, 1996; ... A day after the suspension of Astra USA Inc.'s chief executive for"improprieties," a female former employee alleged the pharmaceuticalcompany's fraternity-house atmosphere included pressure from malesupervisors to have sex and orders from bosses to divide her day intoeight-hour segments ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1996 ...Q. Was Yul Brynner's mother a Gypsy? M.B., TopsfieldA. She was. The late actor was born on Sakhalin Island off the coastof Siberia to a Mongolian mining engineer and his Romanian Gypsywife. In 1977, he served as honorary president of a conference ofGypsies from 22 nations calling for ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1996 ... Q. I have a certificate for 1,000 shares of the capital stock ofthe Silver Mining Co. of Arizona, issued May 2, 1910. How can I findout if the certificate is valuable as stock or as a collectible?K.R., SaugusA. Billions of dollars are often available for seemingly worthlessstocks and ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1996 ... Q. What percentage of the US Armed Services is female? R.S., BostonA. There has been a gradual increase in the percentage of militarypersonnel that is female since 1973. Although women constituted only2.5 percent of the armed services in 1973, they now constitute 12.6percent, with the ...
ASK THE GLOBE / THE ADDRESS BOOK
May 01, 1996 ...For C.M., Brighton -- Bob Seger, c/o Punch Enterprises, 567 PurdyStreet, Birmingham, MI 48009For B.R., Providence -- George Lucas, Lucas Films, P.O. Box 2009, SanRafael, CA 94912For B.M., Boston -- Alanis Morissette, c/o Atlas Entertainment, ...
Ad agency takes home the gold Houston Herstek Favat gets Clio award for antismoking spot
May 01, 1996; ... Boston ad agency Houston Herstek Favat has captured one of theadvertising world's highest awards -- a gold "Clio" for publicservice -- for an antismoking ad produced for the MassachusettsDepartment of Public Health. Awarded last night at a ceremony in San Francisco, the ...
BC provost denounces newspaper article
May 01, 1996; ... Boston College's provost has sharply denounced a story in aconservative student newspaper that was widely seen as trivializing arecent anti-Semitic incident on campus. The largely fictional storyabout an alleged hate crime against Rev. Ronald Tacelli ran with aphoto of the philosophy ...
Make money: Let your portfolio go to hell
May 01, 1996; ...How very intriguing that the American Medical Association hasissued an edict urging Americans not to invest in cigarette companies("AMA Calls On Investors to Dump Tobacco Stocks" -- Los AngelesTimes, April 24). One presumes these are the same ethics-obsessedsawbones who plotted day and ...
Judge refuses to bar OK of Biogen drug Rival Berlex thwarted; FDA approval expected within 4 weeks
May 01, 1996; ...Biogen Inc. is breathing a sigh of relief after a federal judgedenied Berlex Laboratories' request for a temporary restraining orderto bar the FDA from approving a Biogen drug to treat multiplesclerosis. US District Court Judge James Robertson's decision eliminates thelast ...
`Pyramid': a pharaoh gets the Kafka treatment
May 01, 1996; ... THE PYRAMIDBy Ismail KadareTranslated, from the French of Jusuf Vrioni, by David BellosArcade, 176 pp., $19.95Robert Taylor is the retired chief book critic of the Globe. The Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, now resident in Paris, hasconstructed in "The Pyramid" a glittering ...
Gold rush to Internet Interest in cyberspace skyrockets high-speed switch maker Cascade
May 01, 1996; ...In the storied history of Massachusetts high technology, nocompany save Lotus Development Corp. has grown faster. From no revenues at all in 1991 Westford-based CascadeCommunications Corp. last year reported sales of $135 million, andWall Street analysts are looking for them to ...
Sinden says Kasper staying GM addresses coaching, other issues in talk
May 01, 1996; ... Harry Sinden held his annual "State of the Team" meetings with thelocal media yesterday, and the Bruins president/general manager wasvery clear on some issues but not on others. The one definite is that coach Steve Kasper will be back behindthe bench next year. As for the job ...
Strong scrutiny for Camby Health, durability big issue
May 01, 1996; ... After his collapse before a Jan. 14 game at St. Bonaventure,University of Massachusetts center Marcus Camby played the rest ofthe season as if nothing was wrong. By the time the junior fromHartford led the Minutemen to their first Final Four ever in April,questions about his physical ...
Noodle Bar is dramatic 2d act
May 01, 1996; ... Spring is a time for makeovers -- out with the old, in with thenew. Rocco's, long a fixture in the theater district, is now theNoodle Bar, a makeover of the most dramatic kind by owners Patrickand Jayne Bowe. Rocco's had never been a static restaurant. The Bowes tinkeredwith it ...
Wanted: Tales from the Commute
May 01, 1996 ... Everyone has to get somewhere at one time or another, most of usat least twice a day. Is there anyone who has not had a memorablecommuting experience that just screams out to be shared with theworld, something that breaks up the tedium of that daily commute? Whether you travel by ...
Even if widow wins, she still loses
May 01, 1996; ... Donna Harris-Lewis no doubt is doing what the lawyers tell her sheshould do. Three years ago, Dr. Gilbert Mudge told the world thather husband, Reggie, had a "normal athlete's heart." Two monthslater, Reggie Lewis dropped dead shooting baskets. The diagnosis waswrong and Harris-Lewis is ...
`Song' of woe for Derby favorite
May 01, 1996; ...LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Unbridled's Song, expected to be the odds-onfavorite in Saturday's 122d Kentucky Derby, has a sore left frontheel and his status is of serious concern. The condition of thenation's leading 3-year-old is such that trainer James Ryerson calleda news conference outside ...
Mass. plan would allow civilian flaggers
May 01, 1996; ...Police officers, who have long enjoyed a lucrative monopoly onpaid traffic details in Massachusetts, would have to share the roadwith civilian flaggers under a package of reforms offered by a keylegislator yesterday.But Sen. James P. Jajuga (D-Methuen), who also released ...
As GOP factions fight, Dole campaign suffers
May 01, 1996; ...WASHINGTON -- Call it a second round of Republican presidentialprimaries: An increasingly divisive campaign for Sen. Bob Dole'spolitical soul is tearing at the party and threatening the Kansan'spresidential quest.Dole's winter of victories is turning into a springtime melt, ...
A Middle East turning point?
May 01, 1996 ...Israel's prime minister, Shimon Peres, told Jewish leaders in NewYork Monday that the Middle East is in a period of transition andthat despite the rise of Islamic militants and hostile forces,killing is yielding to peace.Both Peres and Yasser Arafat were in the United States ...
GOP mistakes on housing
May 01, 1996 ...Congressional Republicans continue to offer conflictingstrategies for dealing with the housing problems of America's poor.First they agitated for a widescale state-run voucher program thatwould have pushed public housing tenants -- unprepared and largelyunwelcome -- into the private ...
Gas prices and gasbags
May 01, 1996 ... There must be something in gasoline fumes that cause politicalfigures to act in opportunistic ways whenever fuel prices go upsharply. It happened repeatedly in the 1970s, and it is happeningnow, over a much less painful price spike. First to respond to the increases were ...
Farrell of Globe honored
May 01, 1996; ... WASHINGTON -- John Aloysius Farrell, a political reporter for TheBoston Globe, has won two journalism awards for his coverage ofPresident Clinton and the White House.Farrell, 43, will receive the 1995 Aldo Beckman Award forexcellence in White House coverage at the annual dinner ...
Longwood hoping to land Fed Cup
May 01, 1996; ... If this year's Fed Cup finals are to be held at Longwood CricketClub, two things must happen: The United States must defeat hostJapan in mid-July and Spain must beat France. But even if that occurs, there's still no guarantee that thefinals, scheduled for Sept. 27-28, would be at ...
SIDEBAR Somerville heir-finders await sweet success
May 01, 1996; ...Poring over Massachusetts lists of unclaimed property owners,John Hinds noticed that the same name, Giovanni Caprio, came up fornine straight years. Hinds, a Somerville heir-finder, had stumbled onto one of thelargest potential returns of unclaimed property in state history --$3 ...
Castoff Flaherty caught a big break with Detroit
May 01, 1996; ... He made the obligatory minor league stops in Elmira, Winter Haven,Lynchburg, New Britain and Pawtucket, and when he finally made it toBoston, John Flaherty was hoping his major league career would beginand end here. But in April 1994, just after the Red Sox headed north, ...
Ruschionis reign in Fourball
May 01, 1996; ... STOW -- They were among the survivors of Monday afternoon'storrential rains and biting cold in the 16th State Fourball at StowAcres CC, sneaking in with a 2-under-par 70 on the South Course. Thereward for Jim and Jason Ruschioni was to go out yesterday morningand tackle the North Course ...
Abused daughter sees father sentenced She feels she got justice after all
May 01, 1996; ... CAMBRIDGE -- Since the time she was 6, Colleen Rhoads said, heradoptive father had sexually abused her. In 1983, when she was 21,Colleen and her younger sister, Jessica Hayden, went to police inLisbon, N.H., to detail the years of abuse they endured from theirfather, Hervey ...
Governor may avoid a fight on abortion at GOP convention
May 01, 1996; ... With his own state delegation ready to battle him over theabortion issue, Gov. William F. Weld is having second thoughts abouttaking a break from his Senate campaign schedule to attend theRepublican National Convention in August. Weld's campaign manager, Virginia Buckingham, said ...
Samuel Hammond, 94 Utility executive, Nahant native
May 01, 1996; ... Samuel Hammond of Hightstown, N.J., an electrical engineer andutility executive, died Sunday at the Medical Center at Princeton, inPrinceton, N.J. He was 94. Mr. Hammond worked for Public Service Electric and Gas Company inNewark in various capacities for 40 years, retiring as its ...
Paul Heins, 87; editor pioneered criticism of children's books
May 01, 1996 ... A funeral service will be held tomorrow for Paul Heins, an editorand teacher who pioneered serious criticism of children's literature.Mr. Heins died of cancer Sunday at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Hewas 87. The service will be held at the Parish of the Messiah ...
Ex-collector of excise bills is indicted in tax fraud case
May 01, 1996 ... A Tewksbury man who once collected excise taxes for 41 communitieswas indicted yesterday on state charges of tax evasion and filingfalse returns, state officials said.John B. Bolduc was indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury onfour counts of income tax evasion, four counts of ...
10 murder charges face Russian man held in Hub
May 01, 1996; ... A 35-year-old man whom sources say is wanted for murder in hisnative Russia could be sent back to his homeland if officials of theUS Immigration and Naturalization Service can prove he violated termsof his visitor's visa. The deportation hearing for Aleksey Motovich Yakhim, which ...
Ruling aids insurance agents But higher commissions may curb future driver discounts
May 01, 1996; ... State regulators yesterday sided mostly with agents in a $40million battle over auto insurance commissions, in a ruling that oneconsumer advocate said could jeopardize future discounts to gooddrivers. Insurance companies have offered substantial discounts toconsumers this year, ...
Last week, black lives mattered
May 01, 1996; ... In Boston, the city last week agreed to pay $1 million to thewidow of a retired black minister who was killed in a drug raid bypolice who could not tell a septuagenarian from Superfly. In NewYork, a civil jury ordered Bernhard Goetz to pay Darrell Cabey $43million for shooting Cabey ...
April showers usually bring power to Jefferson
May 01, 1996; ... Reggie Jefferson probably will take his sweet time today beforechanging his calendar to May. April, it seems, has been kind to the Red Sox' designated hitter,who cranked out two home runs last night at Fenway Park, anotherexample of the early-season terror he has been throughout ...
Her time in a bottle Caroline Knapp's memoir recounts her painful love affair with alcohol
May 01, 1996; ... CAMBRIDGE -- Honestly, can you imagine a man describing hisalcoholism like this? "It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the lovewas ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out." Well, that is how writer Caroline Knapp opens her memoir, ...
Rockets are stars of Game 3 showtime
May 01, 1996; ...HOUSTON -- This time Hakeem Olajuwon stayed out of foul trouble,in the game and on his mark. When that occurs, good things generallyhappen to the Houston Rockets. Last night was no exception.Olajuwon, who fouled out of Game 2 Sunday, returned to score 30points, and the ...
Minna Davis Levine, 99 Longtime advocate for veterans
May 01, 1996 ... A funeral will be held today in Schlossberg & Solomon MemorialChapel in Canton for Minna Davis Levine, a veterans' advocate whocelebrated her 99th birthday last week. Mrs. Levine died Monday in Meadowbrook Nursing Home in Cantonafter a brief illness. Mrs. Levine was president ...
Widow sues doctors over Lewis' death Negligence by those who OK'd Celtic to play alleged
May 01, 1996; ... Donna Harris-Lewis yesterday shocked the medical community byfiling suit against Dr. Gilbert H. Mudge Jr. and other cardiacspecialists at Brigham and Women's Hospital, charging their treatmentof her late husband, basketball star Reggie Lewis, was "renderedcarelessly, unskillfully and ...
Black eyes at Black Rock; making the case for marriage
May 01, 1996; ... Two tottering institutions are under the magazine microscope thisweek: marriage and CBS. We'll get to the fraying bonds of matrimony in a moment, butfirst: Can this network be saved? It's been a bad year at BlackRock, what with the loss of the NFL broadcasts to Fox, ...
NFL: Owners approve Oilers' Nashville move
May 01, 1996 ... NFL owners voted, 23-6, yesterday to allow the Houston Oilers tomove to Nashville. The Oilers would be the seventh NFL team toswitch cities since 1982 -- and the fourth in the past year. In thiscase, though, the Oilers are committed to remain in Houston for thenext two years. Owner Bud ...
Lush loses something live, but Mojave 3 stands out
May 01, 1996; ... LUSHWith Mojave 3 and ScheerAt: the Paradise, Monday night Every so often an independent record label cultivates a certaincachet, whereby discerning fans will take a chance on a band simplybecause the taste-makers at a specific label have deemed it worthy.The run may not last ...
SIDEBAR Case could take years to resolve
May 01, 1996; ... To win their medical malpractice suit, Reggie Lewis's family willhave to persuade a jury that Dr. Gilbert H. Mudge Jr.'s diagnosisthat the Celtics forward could consider returning to basketball wasnot just a bad call, it was a decision no reasonable doctor wouldmake, legal specialists ...
Cheated children present the bill
May 01, 1996; ... Bill Weld is about to be called to account for six years of hisabuse and neglect of this state's most vulnerable children. Get ready for the class-action suit, governor. For the last few months some of Massachusetts' most committedadvocates for children have been plotting their ...
Firm says hospital merger to keep deficits at $14m a year
May 01, 1996; ... Unless Boston City Hospital merges with its next-door neighbor,the municipal hospital's deficits will soar from $8 million next yearto $45 million annually five years from now, according to an outsidefinancial analysis released yesterday by city officials. But that deficit could be ...
Parking meters mystery thickens Mayor says search turns up no coins
May 01, 1996; ... A week ago, thousands of discarded city parking meter heads --most still holding cash -- were stacked in a 35-foot city trailer inBoston's South End, providing a partial answer to a vexing question:Why have parking meter revenues recently dipped. Privately, city officials pointed ...
Sex offender's presence questioned Lack of information angers parents
May 01, 1996; ...PLYMOUTH -- While dozens of children rode their bicycles andplayed on the narrow streets of Mayflower Village yesterday, theirparents angrily asked how a convicted sex offender could be allowedto live among them until his arrest last weekend on charges that heraped a 14-year-old ...
Island drug sting nets 14 arrests
May 01, 1996; ... NANTUCKET -- Fourteen islanders have pleaded not guilty to drugcharges after an undercover officer spent a year getting in closewith the locals and allegedly bought cocaine from ...
Conn. driver sues talk-show host
May 01, 1996; ... MILFORD, Conn. -- A rubbernecker who drove into the back of a firetruck on Interstate 95 is blaming talk-show host Phil Donahue'shighway-roaming golden retriever for the accident, and wants Donahueto pay. Kevin Jalbert has accused Donahue and his wife, actress MarloThomas, of ...
N.H. votes on fate of potent brews
May 01, 1996; ... CONCORD, N.H. -- New Hampshire votes today on whether to joinneighboring states in permitting beers with higher than usual alcoholcontent. The House votes on a Senate-passed bill to permit beer that is 12percent alcohol, double the present limit. High-alcohol beer is asmall part ...
Trooper punished following chase
May 01, 1996; ... NORTHAMPTON -- A state trooper has been placed on three years'probation after pleading guilty to assault for chasing threeteen-agers to a Pelham home while off-duty and pointing his gun attheir ...
Test tampering found at school
May 01, 1996; ... FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- A check of standardized tests taken at aelementary school uncovered evidence of tampering, school officialssaid, so the results will be thrown out. Riverside Publishing Co., in a review of high test results at theStratfield School, found that an unusually high ...
Montana weighs a Freemen forum
May 01, 1996; ... HELENA, Mont. -- Leaders of the Montana Legislature said yesterdaythey would consider giving the antigovernment Freemen a public forumfor their views -- but only after the Freemen surrender to the FBI."We won't negotiate beforehand or guarantee them anything until ...
Wis. governor inks abortion law
May 01, 1996; ... MADISON, Wis. -- Gov. Tommy Thompson signed an abortion lawyesterday that requires women to consult with a doctor in person atleast 24 hours before getting an abortion, except in certain cases ofrape and incest. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin said it would ...
Texas calls race admissions issue
May 01, 1996; ... AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas appealed an antiaffirmative action rulingon university admissions to the US Supreme Court yesterday, arguingthat race should be one of many factors considered in admissions ....
Leaks raise stir in Oklahoma case
May 01, 1996; ... DENVER -- The government fired back at defense attorneys in theOklahoma City bombing case yesterday, accusing them of leakingconfidential information to bolster their clients' images in themedia. Special US Attorney Joseph Hartzler said the leaks includedFBI reports on interviews with ...
Plane lands safely with crippled gear
May 01, 1996; ... ONTARIO, Calif. -- Passengers prayed and wept as a SouthwestAirlines jetliner with a crippled left landing gear touched downsafely yesterday. None of the 127 passengers or five crew memberswere hurt as the Boeing 737 came to rest slumped on its left engineand tilted up, its nose wheel ...
N.Y. officer averts deaf man's death
May 01, 1996; ... NEW YORK -- A police officer used sign language yesterday topersuade a suicidal deaf man to back away from the rooftop ledge of a32-story building in the Washington Heights section of upperManhattan. "I ...
Drunken driving penalties pushed
May 01, 1996 ... WORCESTER -- Gov. William F. Weld proposed stiff new penalties fordrunken driving yesterday, including forfeiture of vehicles forrepeat offenders. The proposed law would allow the state toconfiscate vehicles of someone convicted two or more times on drunkendriving ...
Police probe area where Lent seen
May 01, 1996 ... GRAND GORGE, N.Y. -- State Police canine units conducted trainingexercises yesterday in an area where accused child killer Lewis LentJr. of North Adams, Mass., had been sighted in 1993, authoritiessaid. An area in ...
Bush will give Williams speech
May 01, 1996 ... WILLIAMSTOWN -- Former President George Bush will be the mainspeaker at Williams College commencement ceremonies this ...
Incumbent wins post in Milton
May 01, 1996 ... MILTON -- Incumbent selectwoman Katherine Dunphy defeated DianeAgostino by just 47 votes in the most highly contested race in townelections last night. Dunphy, a part-time financial consultant, ...
Man stands trial in R.I. slaying
May 01, 1996; ... PROVIDENCE -- A 20-year-old Pawtucket man is standing trial oncharges he and another man used a 77-pound tombstone to fatally beata prostitute. Opening arguments in Derek Brown's trial were heldMonday in Providence County Superior Court. Brown and Bradley Kryla,20, of Pawtucket, who will ...