The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from April 1997:
4-year-old girl left alone in apartment Child found roaming Blue Hill Avenue
Apr 01, 1997; ... In 20 years of living at the Nazing Court apartments nearFranklin Park, Deondre Kennard has seen bullets fly, graffiti go up,and drug deals go down. But Kennard, 27, says he'd never seen anything like what hewitnessed from his parlor window yesterday before dawn: A little ...
Raising Arizona It ascends to pinnacle of NCAA for first time
Apr 01, 1997; ...INDIANAPOLIS -- A team that many people predicted wouldn't winone NCAA tournament game won them all. And by doing that, theUniversity of Arizona won its first national championship last night,beating defending national champion, Kentucky, 84-79, in overtime atthe RCA Dome. Coach ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1997 ... Q. Why is it considered good luck in Ireland to kiss the BlarneyStone?A.M., BostonA. According to Liam Laffey of the Irish Tourist Board, the BlarneyStone, which is set in the outer southern wall of Blarney Castle inCounty Cork, gives good luck and eloquence to ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1997 ... Q. How can I learn the requirements for submitting a quilt to theTopsfield Fair next Fall? D.M., BostonA. Fair spokesman Sally O'Maly suggests you request a free mailedcopy of the "Premium Book," which lists all the entry requirementsfor Fair exhibits. Write to the ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1997 ... Q. How many times has the late actor Dana Andrews been married? Howmany children did he have? What did he die of and where is heburied? M.N., RevereA. Dana Andrews married twice. His first wife, Janet Murray, whom hemarried in 1932, died in 1935. Their son, David, a musician ...
ASK THE GLOBE IN SEARCH OF...
Apr 01, 1997 ... Elvira Fabrizio Santiani of East Cambridge is looking forgraduates of the Putnam School in East Cambridge, class of 1931. Sheis especiallly ...
Three cheers for Archie Walsh
Apr 01, 1997; ...By 9 o'clock yesterday morning, the freshly polished hallways ofthe William E. Russell Elementary School in Dorchester were filledwith the sounds of happy voices belonging to all the children whoarrived for class on a dreary Monday that would be Archie Walsh'slast day in the system ...
Take the first step and dance with him
Apr 01, 1997 ... Dear Beth: What do you do if a guy in your class asks you to dance andnobody likes him? What do you say?FIRST TIME WRITER Make up your own mind. Classmates can be cruel. But they canchange, too. So don't just follow the crowd. Forget about whateveryone else thinks. ...
Team must work on its rebounding Kasper cites Saturday effort
Apr 01, 1997; ... Steve Kasper didn't hold anything back after the first period onLong Island Saturday, with the Bruins trailing, 4-1. But after the second period, with Boston behind, 8-1, Kasperdidn't have any words he cared to share with his players. The Bruins had mailed it in after falling ...
Jury selection begins in McVeigh bomb trial
Apr 01, 1997; ... DENVER -- Timothy McVeigh, the enigmatic Gulf War veteranaccused of one of the deadliest crimes in American history, came faceto face yesterday with the jury candidates who will decide his fate,staring inquisitively at each as they were asked if they had the willto sentence him to ...
Singing Bartoli's praises, in the key of gee
Apr 01, 1997; ... CECILIA BARTOLIThe Passion of SongBy Kim Chernin with Renate StendhalHarperCollins, 232 pp., illustrated, $25 The new book about Cecilia Bartoli provides a definitive answerto a question no one would have thought to ask before: Can women beopera queens? The answer is a ...
Sizing up the stock market's slide Investment pros agree this is not the time to bet on a rebound
Apr 01, 1997; ...After the worst two-day stock market point slide since the crashof 1987, investment pros surveyed yesterday by Boston Capitaldisagreed about whether the Federal Reserve interest-rate boost wasthe cause or merely the catalyst for the drubbing. But they allagreed this is not the time to ...
Anheuser-Busch agrees to modify ads targeting Sam Adams
Apr 01, 1997; ... After running ads that questioned the New England heritage andhigh price of Samuel Adams beer, Anheuser-Busch Cos. agreed yesterdayto modify the ads after an industry watchdog group decided they werenot fully accurate. The ads contain "contextually inaccurate factual ...
Douglas W. Burke, 47 Boston financial executive
Apr 01, 1997 ... Douglas W. Burke of Boston, assistant vice president for ChaseFinancial Corp., died Friday of heart disease in MassachusettsGeneral Hospital. He was 47. Born in Newton, Mr. Burke grew up in Sudbury, graduating fromLincoln Sudbury High School in 1967. He graduated from ...
COLD COMMUTE
Apr 01, 1997 ... Neil Flemming of Framingham cleans his car off before ...
Marianne Carvotta, 43 Founded prenatal care center
Apr 01, 1997 ... Marianne Bresse Carvotta of Plaistow, N.H., a founder of thePregnancy Care Center in Haverhill, died Friday at Mariner HealthCare in Methuen. She was 43. Born in Everett, Ms. Carvotta was educated in Danvers publicschools and graduated from Danvers High School in 1971. She ...
San Diego castrations pose a mystery to local doctors
Apr 01, 1997; ... No ethical physician would have castrated followers of theHeaven's Gate cult without a compelling medical reason, medicalspecialists said yesterday. Dr. Brian Blackbourne, the San Diego County medical examiner,provided the first count of the castrations of cult membersyesterday, ...
Talk of leaving Celtics moving to veteran Fox
Apr 01, 1997; ... WALTHAM -- His talk of the future now is laced with uncertainties.He is the captain of the Celtics and the only Boston player who hasstarted all 72 games. He is third on the team in scoring andminutes, second in rebounds and assists, and first in steals. Only Dee Brown has more ...
Concert Update
Apr 01, 1997; ... The annual KISS concert will be at Great Woods May 31. The lineupwill be announced on KISS-108 April 24, and tickets go on sale April25. Expect fewer acts, but longer sets, we're ...
CORRECTION
Apr 01, 1997 ... CORRECTION : Because of an editing error, a chart in yesterday'sBusiness section incorrectly ...
Blockbuster Visa customers who pay bills in full to be hit with annual fee
Apr 01, 1997; ... Nationsbank of Delaware is preparing to impose a $25 annual fee onBlockbuster Visa customers who pay off their credit card bills eachmonth. The new fee is part of a growing trend in the credit card industryto penalize those customers who pay their bills promptly, in partbecause ...
Protecting the children of abuse
Apr 01, 1997 ...Outsiders every now and then glimpse the terrible violence thatcan disfigure family life. Children are the ultimate victims ofthese attacks, and a bill before the Legislature would protect themfrom being consigned to the batterer's custody. The bill establishes the presumption -- ...
Next move for Netanyahu
Apr 01, 1997 ...The Arab League's decision Sunday to freeze relations with Israelwas a blunt warning that the peace process is nearing a breakdown. As always, the play of diverse motives must be kept in mind.Some of the states signing the Cairo resolution were posturing toplacate public opinion ....
Devaluing a profitable program
Apr 01, 1997 ...Fallout from campaign contribution scandals will cause seriouscollateral damage if it interferes with useful government programs.A case in point is the longstanding interplay between privateenterprise and agencies dealing with foreign trade, as a recent Globestory illustrated. ...
Nature's punch line
Apr 01, 1997 ...No whining. It'll melt. Probably by tomorrow. Thursday thelatest. This is Mother Nature's idea of farce. The old explodingcigar from the elements. A climatological knee-slapper. Knock knock. Who's there?April.What do you mean you don't get it? This is New England ....
Small TV stations in cable win In unexpected 5-4 vote, Supreme Court upholds right to air on systems
Apr 01, 1997; ... WASHINGTON -- Small TV stations, such as those servingSpanish-language, ethnic, and religious audiences, won a crucial andunexpected victory yesterday as a divided US Supreme Court upheld alaw that guarantees them a spot on cable television systems. The 1992 "must carry" law ...
Beacon Hill could hold job prospects for Flynn Weld has interest in talking with former mayor
Apr 01, 1997; ... Former Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn's hunt for a new job maytake him to Beacon Hill and into the employ of a man he hasfrequently reviled as a hard-hearted Republican, oblivious to theneeds of working folk -- Governor William F. Weld.Weld yesterday said he would like to talk ...
Blizzard provides a TV bonanza Ch. 7 leads pack with early coverage, convincing detail
Apr 01, 1997; ... In the needy world of local television, yesterday yielded not justa blizzard but a newsy jackpot, this week's meteorologicalapproximation of the Heaven's Gate mass suicide. Buzzwords andcoincidences amped up coverage of that news event, and so it wentyesterday. Instead of Internets, UFOs ...
`Frontline' humanizes Rwanda's deadly history
Apr 01, 1997; ... In unflinching detail, "Frontline" (9 p.m., WGBH-TV, Channel 2)humanizes the genocide of about 800,000 members of Rwanda's Tutsiethnic minority. Back in 1994, television focused on the bodies --some hacked into pieces with machetes, others washed into the riversof the Central African ...
Dartmouth hockey turns to Gaudet
Apr 01, 1997; ... Bob Gaudet, hockey coach at Brown the past nine years, isreturning to his alma mater. Gaudet, 38 and a native of Saugus, will be introduced as the newcoach at Dartmouth tomorrow. He replaces Roger Demment, who coachedthe Big Green for seven years and has been reassigned in the ...
Reaching out to strangers Student evangelism behind kidnap rescue
Apr 01, 1997; ...There were swims in the ocean and walks on the beach but thiswasn't your typical spring break in Florida. Loh-Sze Leung, a Harvard College senior, and about 20 others fromlocal colleges, spent last week in Daytona Beach spreading the wordof God to those who seemed more intent on ...
The slave traders and Farrakhan
Apr 01, 1997; ... One year ago, just back from his 27-day "world tour" of Africandictatorships and Middle East police states, Louis Farrakhan held anews conference at the National Press Club. Why, one reporter asked,did he defend the government of Sudan, an Iran-style Islamic juntathat enslaves African ...
Orthodox body angers US Jewry with ruling
Apr 01, 1997; ... Widening a rift among American Jews, a national Orthodoxrabbinical group declared yesterday that the more liberalConservative and Reform teachings followed by most US Jews "are notJudaism at all." "It is prohibited to pray in a non-Orthodox temple at anytime,"said the 600-member ...
Employers find humor can improve morale, profits
Apr 01, 1997; ... With so much uncertainty in the workplace these days, is it anywonder that some employers are promoting humor on the frontlines? The trend, still just a blip on the American work scene, featuressome Fortune 500 firms relying on games, contests, jokes -- evenstunts -- to improve ...
The accidental author When vacationing in Marblehead writer Phyllis Karas checked into her Greek Hotel, little did know she would check out with the million-dollar tale of Jackie and Aristotle Onassis
Apr 01, 1997; ... MARBLEHEAD -- Even Phyllis Karas herself admits she's not a writeryou'd expect to reel in a million-dollar book deal. True, she'drecently carved out a modest career as an author of fiction forteenagers, but that happened only after publishers rejected six ofher adult novels. The largest ...
NO NEW CLUES
Apr 01, 1997 ... A kayak found off Gloucester Sunday with no passenger stumps ...
NFL: Raiders move up to 2d in upcoming draft
Apr 01, 1997 ... The Oakland Raiders yesterday acquired the second overall pick inthe upcoming NFL draft from the New Orleans Saints in exchange forwide receiver Daryl Hobbs and three draft choices. The Raiders willchoose behind the New York Jets, and also added the Saints'sixth-round pick (166th ...
Leading off with a triple
Apr 01, 1997; ... Forget about the snow. It's Opening Day in baseball, and ESPN has a tripleheader,starting with the White Sox at Toronto at 1 p.m., followed by theCubs at Florida at 4, and concluding with the Yankees at Seattle at8. The Red Sox don't start until tomorrow night, in Anaheim ...
Gains gone as market falls again Biggest drops since '87 crash
Apr 01, 1997; ... A three-day holiday did nothing to improve Wall Street's sourmood. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 157 pointsyesterday, following a 140-point drop Thursday. The popular marketbenchmark has declined about 7 percent in the past three weeks,virtually wiping out its ...
Richard E. Mastrangelo, at age 58; Mass. official, former aide in D.C.
Apr 01, 1997; ... Richard E. Mastrangelo of Watertown, general counsel in the stateInsurance Division and a former top Cabinet aide in the Nixonadministration, died Sunday in Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital inBoston. Mr. Mastrangelo, who suffered a stroke recently, was 58. His political career was ...
THE CONSCIENCE OF MISSISSIPPI Bill Minor specializes in riling rascals and reactionaries
Apr 01, 1997; ...JACKSON, Miss. -- Bill Minor likes to tell about the night heslept with Ross Barnett. It was during the summer of 1951, when Minor was a young reportercovering Mississippi for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans andBarnett was running for governor. Minor had taken the last room ...
They laughed when he sat down at the typewriter
Apr 01, 1997; ... Material from wire services and other sources was used in thiscolumn. Cambridge composer and author Jan Swafford has been named winnerof the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for his book "CharlesIves: A Life with Music" (Norton). Swafford, 50, said he has beeninterested in Ives ...
Rutgers list at 5 (plus 1)
Apr 01, 1997; ... INDIANAPOLIS -- The list of candidates for the Rutgers coachingjob reportedly is down to five names: Kevin Bannon of Rider, DannyNee of Nebraska, former UCLA coach Jim Harrick, Pat Kennedy ofFlorida State, and Tim Welsh of Iona. There also is one mystery candidate: Boston College's ...
Blaze in Weston cancels classes
Apr 01, 1997 ... WESTON -- An electrical fire early yesterday morning forced theWoodland School to cancel classes yesterday and today, Chief John E.Thorburn said. The fire began in an ...
Man held on bail in videotape case
Apr 01, 1997 ... A man charged with secretly videotaping a sexual assault on achild was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail at his arraignmentyesterday in Ayer District Court, Middlesex District Attorney ThomasReilly announced. Robert Simms of Townsend is charged with ...
Conviction upheld in officer's death
Apr 01, 1997 ... The Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday upheld GailDepradine's involuntary manslaughter conviction for the Dec. 8,1993, shooting death of Boston Police Officer Charles Israel. Thecourt said there was enough evidence for the ...
New Seabury owner in Ch. 11 filing Moves to avoid losing part of resort to creditor
Apr 01, 1997; ... The owner of the New Seabury development in Mashpee filed forbankruptcy protection yesterday in a move to avoid losing part ofCape Cod's largest resort to a creditor. The Chapter 11 filing in US Bankruptcy Court in Boston came fivedays before New Seabury Limited Partnership would ...
Geiger, O'Brien meet No offer made by Ohio St. -- yet
Apr 01, 1997; ... COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Boston College basketball coach Jim O'Brienseemed to emerge as the leading candidate to fill the vacancy at OhioState when he arrived here yesterday and took the grand tour ofcampus in a daylong interview with athletic director Andy Geiger. "We had a nice day," ...
Robinson's triumph, baseball's shame
Apr 01, 1997; ... WASHINGTON The records from the nearly forgotten congressional investigationare yellowed with time, partial to the point of fragmentary, and yeteloquent on a basic point. It is a point worth getting on the table before this month'scelebratory, self-congratulatory hoopla ...
A dispute in miniatures Sherborn man seeks to keep art Germany wants back
Apr 01, 1997; ... Thomas P. Chatalbash thought little of the fateful purchase hemade in the mid-1970s: seven reproductions of 16th-century miniaturepaintings that he bought for a total of about $200. He thought themso inconsequential, he said, that for some time he kept four of theseven in a ...
Patriots gather Moss for their offensive line
Apr 01, 1997; ... FOXBOROUGH -- Zefross Moss, a tackle whose right side of theDetroit offensive line allowed only three sacks the past two seasons,has agreed to a multiyear deal with the Patriots worth more than $1million per year. The addition of Moss, 30, an eight-year veteran from AlabamaState, ...
CALLING MOTHER NATURE
Apr 01, 1997 ... Businessman Paul Lavoie observes the weather yesterday ...
Dubai washout left Suffolk patrons high and dry
Apr 01, 1997; ... The torrential rains that hit Dubai Saturday left Suffolk Downsmanagement and its customers high and dry. Suffolk had opened its gates at 9:30 a.m. in anticipation ofsimulcasting the $500,000 Dubai Duty Free at 10:30 a.m. and the $4million Dubai World Cup at 11:15 a.m., to be followed ...
Vaughn is open-minded Doubts die down as season starts up
Apr 01, 1997; ... LAS VEGAS -- The mood ring might have changed colors by the timethe Red Sox finished their four-hour bus ride to Anaheim last night.But under a gloriously blue desert sky here yesterday, Mo Vaughnwas actually spotted smiling while talking about the team's chanceson the eve of ...
Pitino has 4-year plan
Apr 01, 1997; ... INDIANAPOLIS -- The coaches here assembled for the Final Fourknow one thing above all else to be true. They're all from the CaseyStengel School. "I couldn't have done it without my players,"confessed Ol' Case after winning some kind of award or another.College basketball is no ...
Olson's day has come, year ahead of schedule
Apr 01, 1997; ... INDIANAPOLIS -- A game like this is why we care. A game like this is not just why we care about college basketballand the electricity of the Final Four. It is why we care aboutsport, period. Forty minutes were not enough to settle the 1997 NCAA men'sbasketball championship, ...
Dr. Arthur B. Serino, 88 General practitioner
Apr 01, 1997 ...Dr. Arthur B. Serino of Cambridge, a general practitioner, diedSunday while undergoing heart surgery in Mount Auburn Hospital inCambridge. He was 88. Dr. Serino, a staff member at the hospital, was born inCambridge. He graduated from Harvard College and Boston UniversityMedical ...
Shiva shares dive as company warns of loss Chief financial officer resigns
Apr 01, 1997; ... Shares in Bedford-based Shiva Corp. yesterday plunged 26 percentafter the maker of computer networking equipment warned of asubstantial first-quarter loss and reported the resignation of itschief financial officer. The double-dose of negative news was partly offset by ...
Serious, silly `Man of the Shroud'
Apr 01, 1997; ... It is one of history's most enduring and controversial religiousmysteries: Is the Shroud of Turin the burial cloth of Jesus Christ,as many Christians believe? It's a question that has fueled decades of scientific debate amongthe scores of researchers who have tried to determine ...
Change of name will render MWRA product un-organic Farmers' association forces authority to alter label on retail soil additive
Apr 01, 1997; ... Bowing to demands from organic farmers, the Massachusetts WaterResources Authority has agreed to drop the word "organic" from thebrand name of the fertilizer it makes from human sewage by 1998,dealing a setback to the product just as gardening season is about tobegin. For this ...
Two plead guilty in smuggling case
Apr 01, 1997; ... Two Chinese nationals -- including one who was aboard a shipthat left Falmouth Harbor last fall to collect human cargo -- pleadedguilty yesterday in federal court to trying to smuggle 109undocumented Chinese immigrants into the United States viaMassachusetts. The two are among ...
Reliever Corsi left in limbo He's not on roster but travels with team
Apr 01, 1997; ... LAS VEGAS -- This should come as no surprise to camp followersfamiliar with the ways of general manager Dan Duquette: The Red Soxcut their roster to 25 players, as they were required to do bymidnight last night, but it could change as soon as today. The player most in limbo at the ...
Novelty subsiding, MLS must offer substance
Apr 01, 1997; ... Major League Soccer's novelty effect appears to have subsidedjudging by attendance, which was mostly unimpressive during the firstweek of the season. The exception was the crowd of 53,147 for Saturday's LosAngeles-D.C. United game in Pasadena, Calif., which surpassed thetotal ...
IRA called unlikely source for Oklahoma detonator
Apr 01, 1997; ... If Timothy McVeigh's lawyers intend to prove that the IrishRepublican Army supplied the detonator used to blow up the Alfred P.Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, history is not on theirside. The IRA can be accused of many things, but consorting with whitesupremacists is ...
Blizzard leaves many powerless
Apr 01, 1997; ...At least 100,000 households across Massachusetts lost their powerlast night and this morning as April blew into the region on thewings of a nasty Northeaster that was expected to dump up to 20inches of swirling snow in some areas before tapering off late thismorning. There was ...