The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from September 1996:
Recalling a heritage: Up from slavery Thesis tracing blacks and their progress helped lead to African-American `trail'
Sep 01, 1996; ... CAMBRIDGE -- Rev. Jeffrey Brown, while a student at HarvardDivinity School, had a bit of a problem. He needed something towrite about. A faculty adviser suggested he write about churchhistory, and thus began Rev. Brown's journey into what he describedas the intriguing history of ...
Fenway to meet on nightclub plan
Sep 01, 1996 ... FENWAY -- A community meeting will be held Sept. 9 to airresidents' concerns about a proposal for a restaurant/nightclub witha total capacity of 1,200 people. "The capacity will just overwhelm the neighborhood. We reallydon't need another liquor license. Those are the core ...
CORRECTION
Sep 01, 1996 ... CORRECTION: Because of a transcription error, a sentence in CityWeekly's Aug. 11 CitySpeak was misstated and the name of one authorwas left out. The correct sentence stated, "In Chester Square,nearly one-half of the adult residents ...
Aldermen question director's ouster
Sep 01, 1996; ... Normally, the firing of a housing authority director by theauthority's board of commisioners -- no matter how controversial --would pretty much be the end of things. Director out, interimdirector in. Game over. Not so in Somerville, where tenants and other citizens stillfuming ...
Crosstown Express
Sep 01, 1996; ... Mayor Thomas M. Menino's press secretary, Jacque Goddard, wasrelaying a message from His Honor. "The mayor says the only comment he has is that, `It's thelousiest story I ever read that he has written.' " The he is I, and I want to go on record that a number of myeditors would ...
Total lunar eclipse transpires Sept. 26
Sep 01, 1996; ... September treats us to a total lunar eclipse on the 26th. It is apredictable astronomical event viewed with great interest byastronomers and amateur skywatchers, but virtually unnoticed byeveryone else. This was not always the case. In a time beforestreet lamps and electric lights, when the ...
Q. & A. With Bob Moses, drummer, composer, professor
Sep 01, 1996; ...Bob Moses is a drummer, composer and music professor at the NewEngland Conservatory of Music in Boston. At 48, the Milton residentis considered to be one of the most creative and influential jazz andworld music artists of our time, having played and recorded witheveryone from Dizzy ...
Cicarello resigns post
Sep 01, 1996; ... SOMERVILLE -- Mayor Michael E. Capuano's administrative assistant,Anthony Cicarello, often referred to as Capuano's "right hand man,"resigned last week to take an as-yet-unspecified job in theSomerville school department. Cicarello could not be reached for comment. However, sources ...
SOCIAL SECURITY Q & A
Sep 01, 1996 ... Q. Do people in the military pay Social Security taxes?A. Yes, people who serve in the military services on active duty oron active duty for training have paid into Social Security since1957. While those who served in the military before 1957 did not payinto Social Security, their Social ...
New Mob is missing something
Sep 01, 1996; ... The guy has done time, and, like a lot of guys he knows, he figureshe could be heading back someday to the joint. But he grew up on thestreet, and he returns always to the street, though every once in awhile, he wonders why. Old habits die hard, he says in so many words. He takes what ...
After a late start, Big Green finally hits the field
Sep 01, 1996; ... The Dartmouth College football team held its media day on Friday.And took to the football field for practice yesterday. 'Bout time, said Dartmouth coach John Lyons. "We've got to be the latest school in America to get out forpractice," Lyons said.The Big Green doesn't open its ...
Saturday event to aid family of crash victim
Sep 01, 1996 ... In Sandown, people will be turning out Satruday to help the familyof Scott Bishop, the 32-year-old Sandown man who was criticallyinjured in a car accident in August. Bishop is now in Beth Isreal Hospital in Boston recovering fromneck and back injuries. His sister-in-law, Andrea ...
Governor's race enters time voters pay attention With summer `bashing' over, ad campaigns enter high gear
Sep 01, 1996; ... MANCHESTER -- The summer warmup of political bumper cars, which sawcandidates bash each other over fraudulent ballot petitions andbroken campaign spending pledges, has come to an end. Now begins thedemolition derby that will knock seven of the entrants seeking thegovernor's office out of ...
Catch the eclipse or wait for millennium
Sep 01, 1996; ... September treats us to a total lunar eclipse on the 26th. It is apredictable astronomical event viewed with great interest byastronomers and amateur skywatchers, but virtually unnoticed byeveryone else. This was not always the case. In a time beforestreet lamps and electric lights, when ...
BRIEFS
Sep 01, 1996 ... On Sept. 4 at 11:30 a.m., Quincy Mayor James A. Sheets will cutthe ribbon for the official opening of Quincy Center's EsposeFashions, Ltd., 1479 Hancock St. A reception will be held from 5 to 7p.m. that evening. Marquis Real Estate Better Homes and Gardens of Plymouth is ...
Norfolk's 100 years of lore and laughs
Sep 01, 1996; ... One of the most enjoyable facets of golf is its history. There arewell-documented victories in tournaments such as the US Open. Thereare histories of some of the distinguished golfers such as FrancisOuimet and Bobby Jones. But locally, it is mostly lore, and little of it is fact ....
Schools feel effects of boom in Mansfield
Sep 01, 1996; ... MANSFIELD -- Elise and Mark Fisher pursued their American Dreamwhen they moved to Mansfield and bought a house two years ago. "We wanted a nice place to raise children, where the quality oflife was decent and the schools were pretty good," said Fisher, whohas a 2-year-old son. "We ...
Catch the total lunar eclipse Sept. 26 or wait for millennium
Sep 01, 1996; ... September treats us to a total lunar eclipse on the 26th. It is apredictable astronomical event, viewed with great interest byastronomers and amateur skywatchers, but virtually unnoticed byeveryone else. This was not always the case. In a time beforestreet lamps and electric lights, when ...
END OF THE LINE
Sep 01, 1996 ... Summer vacation's just about over, as school starts this week for(from left) Pat Mylett, ...
Star athletes run in three families
Sep 01, 1996; ... Good morning on this Labor Day weekend, and a round of applause toall the athletic families in our region. Among them, the Amontes ofHingham, the Roenicks of Marshfield and the Careys of Weymouth. Allthree families have competitors in the World Cup Hockey Championshipthat is wrapping up ...
For a few pupils, class is at home
Sep 01, 1996; ... SHARON -- Last Tuesday, the shrill ring of the classroom bellbrought an abrupt end to summer for hundreds of Sharon youngsters.But unlike other 8-year-olds in town, Russell Hirschman stayed home,unconcerned about the first day at school. His parents are homeschoolers, members of a ...
SCHOOLS
Sep 01, 1996 ... Robert McIntyre, principal of Hull Junior Senior High School,recently announced his resignation. He has accepted a position withthe Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School. His replacement hasnot yet been named. Ron McCarthy was named the assistant principalat Duxbury Junior Senior High ...
West takes her skills to Huskies' defense
Sep 01, 1996; ... It was a hot morning at Parsons Field in Brookline. The sun washidden in the hazy sky.The Northeastern University women's field hockey team was in themiddle of its preseason practice on the searing Astroturf, preparingfor its season opener there this Saturday at 1 p.m ....
WHO'S WHAT WHERE
Sep 01, 1996 ... Brockton Service Corps of Retired Engineers has named Fred Armorof Whitman, Robert Baron of Taunton, Werner Horlbeck of Rehoboth andArthur Meyers of Randolph as staff counselors.Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England has named MichaelDunford of Bridgewater as manager of ...
Hockey fan hopes to draw others to Net
Sep 01, 1996; ... With a nickname like "Frosty," what do you think this gentleman'sfavorite sport is?Hockey, of course.Tom Frost is a hockey junkie. He has created his own hockey Webworld, "Frosty's Hockey World," athttp://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/frosty33.Besides some spiffy ...
Total eclipses once inspired myths
Sep 01, 1996; ... September treats us to a total lunar eclipse on the 26th. It is apredictable astronomical event viewed with great interest byastronomers and amateur skywatchers, but virtually unnoticed byeveryone else. This was not always the case. In a time beforestreet lamps and electric lights, when the ...
Lincoln-Sudbury's Blount is making big hits at the Heights
Sep 01, 1996; ... When the Boston College football team was to open its seasonyesterday at the University of Hawaii, former Lincoln-Sudbury Hightwo-sport star Markell Blount had been penciled into the startinglineup at inside linebacker by coach Dan Henning. Blount, a BC junior who excelled in football ...
Rusting and peeling tin ceiling is not a lost cause
Sep 01, 1996; ... Q. I have a nice tin ceiling in my bathroom, but it is rusting andthe paint is starting to peel. I carefully wire-brushed it andrepainted, but the paint is thick and more is coming off again. Isthere any way I can make that ceiling decent looking? I like it andwould like to keep ...
Grumbling heard in Middlesex race
Sep 01, 1996; ... State Rep. Anthony M. Mandile is grumbling about Watertown CityClerk Peter Koutoujian Sr., who is the father of his primaryopponent, Peter J. Koutoujian. "Let's just say there's a bit of uncomfortableness," said the50-year-old Watertown Democrat. "I don't want to get into ...
SOCIAL SECURITY Q. & A.
Sep 01, 1996 ... Q. Do people in the military pay Social Security taxes?A. Yes, people who serve in the military services on active duty oron active duty for training have paid into Social Security since1957. While those who served in the military before 1957 did not payinto Social Security, their Social ...
With lean period over, teachers finding jobs Retirements, added students drive hiring boomlet
Sep 01, 1996; ... After some lean times, teachers are finding jobs once again. Communities in the West Weekly coverage area are hiring largenumbers of secondary- and elementary-grade teachers, following morethan a decade in which only a handful or fewer were hired each year,school officials ...
Natick consumer fed up at being dialed up Woman spurs bill to curb sales of phone, address lists
Sep 01, 1996; ... NATICK -- It's happened to Debra Sayre for years. Persistent,sometimes brazen solicitors have filled her mailbox with unwantedoffers and used her home telephone line to strike a deal or extract adonation. The annoying calls might come in the evening as she wastrying to feed her children ...
PUBLIC HEALTH
Sep 01, 1996 ... The Community Blood Donor Program, located on the Framingham UnionCampus of Columbia Metrowest Medical Center, is seeking donors of alltypes of blood. Anyone 18 years of age or older (or 17 with a signedconsent form from a parent or guardian), weighing at least 110 poundsand in good ...
Who's What Where
Sep 01, 1996 ... Dr. Matthew Samarel of Needham has been named chairman ofpediatrics at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Jill Marie Melanson of Wayland won the Miss Massachusetts AmericanTeen State Title at the annual state pageant. Pamela Glass of Needham has joined the Massachusetts BayCounseling ...
Hopkins to helm `Lost in Space'
Sep 01, 1996; ... DANGER, DANGER: Possibly thanks to Hollywood's current sci-fifever, there's some definitive action on "Lost in Space," the filmadaptation of the 1960s TV series that's been floating in limbo. Adirector, Stephen Hopkins, has been hired to helm a script written byAkiva Goldsman, ...
Exploring arcana in Stoppard's `Arcadia'
Sep 01, 1996; ...Tom Stoppard can be an intimidating playwright for those seekingeasy answers to complex questions or, for that matter, hard answersto easy questions or, now that I think of it, any answers to anyquestions. He's a playwright who takes great joy in the art ofcontradiction, the nondidactic ...
Their work may be honorable -- but it isn't always honored
Sep 01, 1996; ...An old friend, having been married and divorced and having raisedsons, returned to college and received her degree last spring, in herlate 40s. She enrolled in graduate school this fall in Boston andstayed with us over the summer, intending to work part time wherevershe could to make a ...
He gives Eagles kick start
Sep 01, 1996; ... HONOLULU -- With junior kicker Chris Hackett in Boston nursing aquadriceps pull in his right (kicking) leg, redshirt freshman JohnMatich, a 6-foot-2-inch, 194-pounder from San Diego, assumed thekicking duties. And Matich made the most of his time on center stage, drillingfield ...
Fresh approach for BC
Sep 01, 1996; ... HONOLULU -- Like many of his other freshman classmates, ChrisHovan was promised two things when he was being recruited by BostonCollege: No. 1, he would have an opportunity to play; and, No. 2, hewould get to make the trip to Hawaii for the season opener. But little did Hovan know ...
BC wins a lulu
Sep 01, 1996; ... HONOLULU -- When Boston College coach Dan Henning named sophomoreScott Mutryn as the starting quarterback for last night's openeragainst the University of Hawaii, junior Matt Hasselbeck publiclyfumed that Henning was wrong and that he deserved the chance tostart. Last night, ...
No unified front from Tyson, King
Sep 01, 1996; ...When Mike Tyson picked up the phone at his home in Las Vegas lastweek, he did not seem terribly inspired to use it for its originalintention, which is to communicate.Despite that, he did manage to make clear what he thinks ofWorld Boxing Association heavyweight champion Bruce ...
Bruins will look at Beers and Fogarty
Sep 01, 1996; ... The Bruins open training camp this week and will have a host ofnew faces, but at least one will be a blast from the past. The club recently signed 29-year-old defenseman Bob Beers, whobegan his career with Boston. He was the Bruins' 10th choice in the1985 entry draft and played for ...
A turn toward Buddhism
Sep 01, 1996; ... Some obervers dismiss it as just another fad, Dalai Lama chic, aspiritual Macarena that will be blown away by some hot new trend.But others argue that it is an important development in America'sreligious life. It is Buddhism, a religion born in India more than 2,500 years agothat ...
LETTER FROM THE TRAIL
Sep 01, 1996; ... I didn't know he'd grow up to be president.EARTHA CLAYBill Clinton's childhood baby sitterFor four days last week, delegates to the Democratic NationalConvention chewed over the president's approval of the congressionalwelfare overhaul, chewed on juicy ribs and chewed on the ...
FEARLESS SPIRIT
Sep 01, 1996 ... After a poverty-stricken childhood in London, Don McCullin becamea world-class photojournalist. He traveled to most of the majorconflicts of the last 30 years -- capturing on film the agonies ofHue, Biafra, the Middle East. Some 200 ...
IDYLL HOURS An inn in upstate New York provides the perfect weekend
Sep 01, 1996; ... OLD CHATHAM, N.Y. -- Everyone but me, it seemed, was bound forthe Berkshires. I took Interstate 90 past Stockbridge, past Lenoxand Lee, to the other side of Massachusetts' best-known mountains. When I stopped, I was just a half-hour drive from Tanglewood,Jacob's Pillow and all ...
ABC in double-coverage scheme
Sep 01, 1996; ... Deion Sanders' double duty on offense and defense tomorrow night(when the Cowboys and Bears kick off their seasons) should get himalmost as much TV attention in three hours as Tiger Woods receivedall last week. Such a provocative fellow playing both ways is the stuff of dreamsfor ...
Hypocrisy comes in hardcover
Sep 01, 1996; ... UMass alums should know that there is a bright side to thedeparture of basketball coach John Calipari. There will be moretickets available when the Minutemen play Boston College at the NewGarden this winter. University officials won't have to set aside aspecial section for player agents, ...
BELLES LETTRES OF AMHERST A scholar invents an epistolary novel starring Emily Dickinson, young poetic hothead
Sep 01, 1996; ... I NEVER CAME TO YOU IN WHITEBy Judith Farr. Houghton Mifflin: Peter Davison. 223 pp. $21.95.Gail Caldwell is chief book critic of the Globe. A slight, ebullient woman, she tended her beloved garden at duskand left her father's house only rarely after the age of 29. Shefiddled with ...
Foes to Mickey: You dirty rat Boycott bandwagon rolls on as churches say firm forsakes morals for money
Sep 01, 1996; ...Christian conservatives have found a new enemy in their battle todefend American family values, and it's not Bill Clinton or his palsin the White House. This time, it's Mickey Mouse and his pals in the Magic Kingdom. Walt Disney Co. -- whose very name conjures up images of ...
Wrong question, right answer
Sep 01, 1996 ...Several of the problems with referendum politics were put infocus last week by Attorney General Scott Harshbarger's decision tobar an attempt by abortion opponents to test public opinion on whenlife begins.Harshbarger was right to reject the ballot question, and hisrationale ...
Malpractice at a medical journal?
Sep 01, 1996 ...A recent flap at The New England Journal of Medicine shows thateven the most esteemed doctors can mix equal parts ethical andmanagerial lapses to damage the image of integrity essential totheir profession. Like many publications, the journal publishes editorials. Unlikemost ...
Protecting our national parks
Sep 01, 1996 ...America's national park system is like a magnificent familymansion that needs work. This "handyman's special" is creaking alongwith ancient sewer and electrical systems, buildings that leak,peeling paint, ungroomed trails and roads with potholes that couldswallow a moose. In ...
Fall TV: familiar faces and formulas
Sep 01, 1996; ... No wonder the industry foresees ABC's "Spin City" as one of TV'sfew new fall hits. The Tuesday-night comedy's title and gallowshumor hit painfully close to home. As Mike Flaherty, New York's deputy mayor, star Michael J. Foxgreets each crisis with a double take and a slap to the ...
Why film festivals were invented
Sep 01, 1996; ... To judge by the films alone -- and that's the best way to judgethem -- festivals lend credence to the parallel-universe theory.Miss one of the promising new crop of films at Cannes and you likelycan catch it in Boston, Toronto, Telluride or New York well ahead ofits commercial release ....
ALL IN THE FAMILY In tracing a path from Roosevelt to Reagan, Samuel G. Freedman shows how class and race have transformed modern politics
Sep 01, 1996; ... THE INHERITANCEHow Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reaganand Beyond.By Samuel G. Freedman. Simon and Schuster. 446 pp. $27.50.Renee Loth is deputy editorial page editor of the Globe. Class traitors are not new to American politics. FranklinRoosevelt was one, ...
Politics gets too personal
Sep 01, 1996; ...CHICAGO - By the end of the convention, a colleague who wasgetting tired and cranky started calling it a three-hankie politicalseason. First, the Republicans had paraded heart-warming andheart-breaking storytellers across the San Diego podium. Theirwar-hero candidate had ...
Children's accounts best handled separately
Sep 01, 1996; ...Q. My aunt and uncle gave me $30,000 to invest for theeducation of our three children, ages 12, 8, and 5. I'm sure they areafraid that the money is just sitting in my bank account, and they'reright. I don't know where to begin. I spoke to a representative atour bank who gave me the ...
Hummer is the king of any road
Sep 01, 1996; ... Sue Mead is a free-lance auto writer specializing in off-roadvehicles. My knight in shining armor had arrived; I'd been waiting for along time. My knight stands a foreboding 6 feet, 3 inches tall --and 86.5 inches wide, 184.5 inches long and weighs in at 6,290pounds. My ...
Peace of mind -- for firms Money market insurance offers few benefits to average investors
Sep 01, 1996 ... By Charles A. Jaffe, Globe Staff Financial advisers generally recommend getting insurance coverageonly for those things you can not afford to replace. If you apply that logic to money market mutual funds, the idea ofpaying companies to buy insurance to protect against bond ...
Burden of proof on Johnson in Miami
Sep 01, 1996; ...FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- It is never easy to live bycommandments, whether they're the ones Moses hand-delivered to theworld or the ones Miami's Moses writes down for himself. According to those who know the man that has been asked to leadthe Miami Dolphins to the National ...
Hummer -- that rhymes with bummer
Sep 01, 1996; ... King of the road? Not to me, lady. Hummer's a bummer. Yes, a Hummer will go almost anywhere on Earth, go where lesservehicles can not. It will ford streams, conquer deserts, climbmountains -- even survive brushes with trees. Just try parking iton Beacon Hill. Or between the lines ...
Art at Logan has potential to move, soothe
Sep 01, 1996; ... More than 24 million people a year pass through Boston's LoganInternational Airport -- 24 times the annual number of visitors tothe city's Museum of Fine Arts, which gives you a clue to thevastness of the potential audience for art at Logan. "Potential" is the key word. Travelers ...
Names: Indians trade for Seitzer
Sep 01, 1996 ...The Cleveland Indians solidified their lineup and infield lastnight by acquiring Kevin Seitzer from Milwaukee for outfielder JeromyBurnitz. The Orioles also were interested in Seitzer, 34, who hit.316 with 12 homers and 62 RBIs in 132 games for the Brewers thisyear. But the Indians got ...
Marching to trouble in Northern Ireland With no rules and lots of drinking, loyalist parades are a little-addressed problem
Sep 01, 1996; ... BELLAGHY, Northern Ireland -- Not long after explaining howmarching through Catholic neighborhoods was not an act oftriumphalism but a sincere expression of pride in his Protestantloyalist tradition, the young man wedged his way between a gable walland a parked car and vomited. Harp ...