The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from September 1997:
NEW AREA CODES EASING INTO EFFECT TODAY
Sep 01, 1997; ... Phone customers will not feel the pinch of the new 781 and 978area codes that go into effect today because Bell Atlantic hasprovided a three-month grace period during which calls will be putthrough whether numbers are dialed with the new or old area codes. When the grace period ...
THE CONFLICTS IN PRESERVING A HERITAGE
Sep 01, 1997; ... DINGLE PENINSULA, Ireland -- Stand at the mountain pass betweenDunquin and Ventry on the Dingle Peninsula in the west of Ireland andyou can see essentially what young Maurice O'Sullivan saw more than80 years ago, and described in the Irish folk classic "Twenty Years ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Sep 01, 1997 ... Q. Jack Williams on WBZ does a weekly segment on children in need ofadoption called "Wednesday's Child." How many children are placedthrough his program?L.H., Northborough A. Williams speaks on behalf of older (school age) andspecial-needs children looking for homes ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Sep 01, 1997 ... Q. Who played the solo clarinet for the premiere of GeorgeGershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" at New York's Aeolian Hall on Feb. 12,1924? Was it Benny Goodman?R.T., BostonA. Although Benny Goodman in later years would ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Sep 01, 1997 ... Q. Is the passenger liner SS United States docked in Philadelphia? J.P., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A. The rusty remains of the once majestic vessel sit in a SouthPhiladelphia slip, Pier 96. It was bought at auction in 1992 byEdward Cantor, a developer, and Fred Mayer, chief executive ...
ASK THE GLOBE IN SEARCH OF. . .
Sep 01, 1997 ... Peter Locke of Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, is looking forinformation concerning Fergus O'Bryne DeWitt and Connie Foley. Lockebelieves that DeWitt lived at 51 Warren St., Roxbury, from about 1949to 1968, when a travel agency and record store (Copley Records) wereon ...
Words from Tony Blair
Sep 01, 1997 ... LONDON -- Following are excerpts from remarks made yesterday byPrime Minister Tony Blair: "She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, howshe will remain, in our hearts and our memories forever. The wholeof our country, all of us, will be in a state of mourning ....
From Boston to London, a day of tears and shock Many Britons felt a kinship with Diana
Sep 01, 1997; ... Material from the Associated Press was used in this report. LONDON -- Clutching a dozen red carnations moistened with hertears, Eliza McMullen gazed at a foot-deep bed of flowers atBuckingham Palace's gates."I know Princess Diana is dead, but my mind doesn't believe it,"she ...
She never lost the sympathy of world's public
Sep 01, 1997; ... To be deified, then devoured: That is the fate awaiting the famousin an era that has substituted celebrities for heroes, and that isthe fate met by a young kindergarten teacher who would become knownto the world as Princess Diana. The cult of celebrity has engulfed public figures ...
Michael Chitro, 73 Beverly developer for 40 years
Sep 01, 1997 ... Michael Chitro of Beverly, a developer, died Saturday in his home.He was 73. Mr. Chitro was born in Pawtucket, R.I., and raised in Salem. Hegraduated from Salem High School. He was a coxswain in the US Navy during World War II, serving inthe Asiatic Pacific Theatre. A ...
From gilded dining room to intensive care Glamour to horror in just over 4 hours
Sep 01, 1997; ...PARIS -- They died, in some ways, as they had lived: in ahigh-speed journey through the most glamorous and luxurious sectionsof Paris, known as the city of lovers. In their few weeks together, Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed hadsampled Europe's best, from cruises on private yachts ...
A PRESIDENTIAL VACATION First family fills days with golf, socializing, and visits to the beach on third trip to Martha's Vineyard
Sep 01, 1997; ... Just like many people do, President Clinton and his family took asummer vacation this year. Once again, the Clintons returned to the island of Martha'sVineyard, a popular New England vacation spot, where the populationgrows from about 14,000 to 60,000 in the summertime. But, ...
What's new on the sidelines?
Sep 01, 1997; ... 4FOOTBALL MONDAY / NFL REPORT / MARK BLAUDSCHUN When is a new coach really a new coach? The NFL has 11 "new"coaches this season. But are they really "new"? Bill Parcells, Jets. Sorry. Giants, Patriots. Mike Ditka, Saints. Nope. Bears. Steve Mariucci, 49ers. That's ...
Stressed-out Cordero asks for a night off
Sep 01, 1997; ... Red Sox outfielder Wilfredo Cordero, who spent the day with hislawyer preparing for his October trial on domestic abuse charges, wasexcused from last night's game with the Atlanta Braves after callingmanager Jimy Williams and telling him that he could not play. Williams said before ...
Field general was in command -- and at ease
Sep 01, 1997; ... FOXBOROUGH -- It was the first time he ever took the field in apro football game without Tuna Dad yelling at him from the sideline.For the first time in his five-year career, Drew Bledsoe saw hiscoach smiling. "This was fun," Bledsoe said after the Patriots shredded the SanDiego ...
Remembering Diana Britain mourns as its princess is brought home
Sep 01, 1997; ... Kevin Cullen reported from London, Elizabeth Neuffer from Paris.LONDON -- Princess Diana returned to a grieving, angry nationyesterday, her coffin escorted by Prince Charles from the Parishospital in which one of the world's most beloved women died just 16hours earlier. A private ...
Clinton offers condolences to family of princess
Sep 01, 1997; ... Francie Latour of the Globe staff contributed to this report.EDGARTOWN -- President Clinton, appearing on a grassy field nearhis borrowed villa under a glaring morning sun, offered somber andsimple condolences yesterday to Princess Diana's family and thepeople of Britain....
PRINCESS DIANA: 1961-1997
Sep 01, 1997 ... 1. Diana, Princess of Wales, takes a boat ride with her sons, PrinceHarry, then 7, and Prince William, then 9, in Niagara Falls in 1991.2. Diana Frances Spencer was the third of four children of the Earland Lady Spencer. They divorced in 1969.3. Diana's famous evening gowns helped her ...
Man drowns in Hopkinton reservoir as family watches in horror
Sep 01, 1997; ... As his family watched in horror, a 27-year-old Allston mandrowned yesterday afternoon after wading toward his wife and childrenfrom a small island in Hopkinton State Park's reservoir. He had beenfishing from the island.German Gamez, who was not dressed for swimming, had ...
Sacco, Vanzetti, and labor
Sep 01, 1997 ...The murder trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was oneof the most controversial in the history of Massachusetts, and the70th anniversary of their execution is being commemorated this year.This account of the trial is from "Boston's Workers, A Labor History"by James R. Green ...
Holiday weekend crashes kill Attleboro woman, injure trooper, others
Sep 01, 1997; ... An unusually safe beginning to the holiday weekend was marred by asole traffic fatality. An Attleboro woman, Deborah J. Moelk, 41, was killed Saturdayevening in Wellfleet when her car crossed Route 6 near David Cornerand struck a guardrail and telephone pole before rolling over ...
Summoned, but not about the Gardner Judge wants dealer on other charges, DA says
Sep 01, 1997; ...Norfolk District Attorney Jeffrey Locke yesterday rebuttedallegations that prosecutors are trying to obtain information aboutthe Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist by forcing antiquesdealer William P. Youngworth III to appear at an emergency hearing onWednesday. Locke ...
He was homed in Local hero Glavine found his groove
Sep 01, 1997; ... Early on last night, it appeared hometown boy Tom Glavine wasgoing to be a bust. In the first inning, the Braves' lefthanded ace was touched for asolo home run by Mo Vaughn, hit Reggie Jefferson with a pitch, gaveup singles to Bill Haselman and Troy O'Leary, and found himself in ...
Labor playing it cool in governor's race
Sep 01, 1997; ... With US Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II out of the race forgovernor, Attorney General Scott Harshbarger is trying to woo thelabor vote that has been a deep base of Kennedy's support. Harshbarger's schedule for this week, which was faxed to the mediaon Friday, is top-heavy with ...
Harvard's posthumous award
Sep 01, 1997 ... Officials at the Harvard University AIDS Institute said yesterdaythat they will honor Princess Diana posthumously next year forhaving drawn attention to people with AIDS. Diana had already accepted the institute's seventh ...
What class of shares are best bet for bond fund?
Sep 01, 1997; ... Kenneth Hooker will answer selected investors' questions in theSunday Mutual funds and Monday Money sections. Send letters,including your name, address and telephone number, to: KennethHooker, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA 02107-2378. Q. When I retired in 1993, I had built a 403(b) ...
It's a Jet-propelled debut for victorious Parcells, too
Sep 01, 1997; ... SEATTLE -- When Bill Parcells ran off the field after his teamplayed what old Parcells hand Pepper Johnson called "a near-flawlessgame," a small cluster of Jets fans above the tunnel to the teamlocker room serenaded their new coach with cries of glee. Parcells, obviously elated, ...
Michael J. Joseph, 62 Retired marketing executive
Sep 01, 1997 ... Michael J. Joseph of Bourne, a marketing director, died Friday inhis home. He was 62. Mr. Joseph was born in Boston and earned a bachelor's degree inmarketing and advertising from Northeastern University in 1958. He was a US Navy veteran, serving in Bermuda in the late ...
Deaf pilot heard call of wild blue yonder Then he flew cross-country, and wrote of it
Sep 01, 1997; ... Just like every other airplane pilot, Henry Kisor has a headset.The only difference is that he doesn't wear it all the time when heis flying, because for him, it is useless. Kisor is one of only some 70 deaf pilots in the United States andcannot hear an air traffic controller or ...
Employment boom not felt by all
Sep 01, 1997; ...Unemployment levels may be near a 23-year low, but tell that toVincent Pomer. He knows how hard it can be to find a job. The East Boston printer and father of two young children has beenlaid off three times in the last seven years. He was laid off duringthe recession when jobs ...
Names: Harnisch gets wish, is dealt by Mets
Sep 01, 1997 ... Pitcher Pete Harnisch was traded from the Mets to the MilwaukeeBrewers, a day after being dropped from New York's roster andblasting manager Bobby Valentine. The Mets got minor leagueoutfielder Donny Moore for Harnisch. "It's great for Pete. We allwish him the best. This is what he ...
New fight roils a Louisiana river town Debate pits plastics, jobs against nature
Sep 01, 1997; ... CONVENT, La. -- Along a Mississippi River corridor known as"cancer alley," where towering chemical plants and grain elevatorsclash with waving fields of sugar cane, a new fight is taking placeover the old issue of employment vs. environment.Shintech Corp., a Japanese-owned ...
News got kicked off 2 networks
Sep 01, 1997; ... Seldom does television's pathetic chase for ratings andadvertising dollars take precedence over reporting a major tragedy,but yesterday the sudden death of the most famous woman in the worldplayed second fiddle to sports on CBS and NBC. CBS and NBC might as well take their ...
New laser system may shine light on tainted contaminated meat supplies
Sep 01, 1997; ...CAMBRIDGE -- With last month's recall of 25 million pounds oftainted hamburger putting an alarming spotlight on one of Americans'favorite foods, a small company here is using technology the Pentagondeveloped to counter biological warfare to design a potentiallyrevolutionary way to ...
Media regulation urged after deaths
Sep 01, 1997; ... Material from wire services was included in this report. Diana, the princess whose story was told not by bards but bybulb-flashing tabloid journalists, was mourned yesterday as the firstfatality of the media age. Celebrities demanded that legal restrictions be placed on ...
Doctors had little hope of success
Sep 01, 1997; ...Doctors in Paris reportedly sliced open her shattered chest,sewed a ruptured vein, massaged her heart, and tried other medicalmeasures to rescue Princess Diana, but trauma specialists said heroverwhelming injuries made it inevitable that even the most heroicintervention would come up ...
Olga Miller, 71 Was mayor at naval base
Sep 01, 1997 ... Olga (Primack) Miller, the first woman mayor of a naval base and aformer US Postal Service employee, died of coronary artery disease ather Revere home Friday. She was 71. Mrs. Miller was born in Chelsea and graduated from St. StanislausParish School. She worked as a welder at the ...
KEEPING THE FAITH
Sep 01, 1997 ... A resident of Cudjoe Bay in Montserrat attends a church serviceyesterday. Residents of the Caribbean ...
Rushdie takes third wife
Sep 01, 1997; ... Material from wire services and other sources was used in thiscolumn. Author Salman Rushdie took a bride for the third time in a privateceremony on Long Island last week, according to weekend news reports.Wedding guests, who included New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford,were sworn ...
With Neely House, former Bruin scores another goal
Sep 01, 1997; ... In the decade that he skated for the Boston Bruins, Cam Neelybecame a legend as a fearless skater and goal-scorer with afan-pleasing taste for slamming opponents into the boards. And though he repeatedly overcame painful hip and knee injuries toreturn to the ice, there was one pain the ...
Crash injures 10 in Dorchester
Sep 01, 1997 ... Ten people reportedly suffered injuries when two cars collided onHamilton Street in Dorchester at around 7:40 p.m. yesterday. Fireofficials ...
Man diagnosed with encephalitis
Sep 01, 1997 ... State health officials yesterday said a 69-year-old Plainville manis the first person in Massachusetts this year to contract easternequine encephalitis, a rare disease carried by mosquitoes. He is incritical condition at an unknown hospital after falling ill lastWednesday, said the state ...
Carroll puts the fun back in the game
Sep 01, 1997; ... FOXBOROUGH -- The Coach had a pretty good day yesterday. So didPete Carroll. By the time The Coach was watching his New York Jets pummel theSeattle Seahawks in a 41-3 win that opened the Bill Parcells Era witha bang, Pete Carroll already had his first victory with The Coach'sold ...
John P. O'Regan, 73 Was AVCO/Textron employee
Sep 01, 1997 ... John P. O'Regan of Chelmsford, a retired buyer and traffic managerfor a Lowell firm, died Friday in the Lahey Hitchcock Medical Centerin Burlington. He was 73. Mr. O'Regan was born in Lynn and raised in East Boston. He was agraduate of Immaculate Conception High School in ...
Boston Braves go to bat for Jimmy Fund
Sep 01, 1997 ... To thank the Boston Braves of the 1940s for their early support ofthe Jimmy Fund, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute held a brunchyesterday timed to coincide with the first regular-season trip of themodern-day Braves, now ...
Not bad for openers Charged-up Patriots give SD a start
Sep 01, 1997; ... FOXBOROUGH -- This wasn't a wild idea Pete Carroll had. Far from it. When he played things over in his head, this was exactly theoutcome he imagined. It just so happened that in his first game ashead coach of the New England Patriots, his dream came true. "This is how I ...
Every second counted There was nothing half-hearted about Bruschi's effort
Sep 01, 1997; ... FOXBOROUGH -- It was well after the 41-7 beating of the Chargers.Linebacker Tedy Bruschi was sitting at his locker trying to getdressed, but he had to answer questions about what had happened justprior to the end of the half. He assured that he wasn't trying to embarrass the ...
The Vineyard's street beat A homegrown rapper gives voice to the island lifestyles of the not rich and the unfamous
Sep 01, 1997; ... OAK BLUFFS -- It is nighttime on Circuit Avenue. Summer. A brinybreeze blows in from the ocean a few blocks to the east, and thestreet is alive with people of all colors and ages. Anyone looking to go out and party here knows that this street isone of the first places you look. On ...
From the opening minute, things went like clockwork
Sep 01, 1997; ...FOXBOROUGH -- New England 41, San Diego 7. A referendum on TheTuna? Nah. Well . . . maybe. Just a little. One game's worth, anyhow. "We have some very talented players here," reminded Dave Meggett."And last year the guys learned how to win." "We expected to ...
CONTINENTAL CONCERNS
Sep 01, 1997 ... From left, South African President Nelson Mandela, Robert Mugabeof Zimbabwe, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, and Omar Beshir of ...
Television's flat future After 100 yeras of faithful service, the picture tube is starting to give way to screens you can carry in your pocket or hang on a wall
Sep 01, 1997; ... It's not a new idea: Flat screen TV sets that you could hang onthe wall appeared in sci-fi movies back in the 1950s, and in theearly '60s RCA president David Sarnoff asked his engineers to makehim one. They obliged, sort of, producing a thin one-of-a-kindamber-on-black screen ....
Coleman Finally at center stage
Sep 01, 1997; ... He was a long shot this spring at Double A Trenton. OutfielderMichael Coleman also was one of Boston's best-kept secrets. But when the Red Sox take the field this afternoon in Montreal forthe start of a three-game interleague series against the Expos, the22-year-old Coleman likely ...
Mazzone top gun for Braves Stable of Atlanta aces quick to give pitching coach credit
Sep 01, 1997; ... Someday in the not-too-distant future, the Red Sox hope to have intheir pitching stable the kind of horses the Braves now have intheirs. Down on the farm in Pawtucket, there's Brian Rose (17-5, 3.02) andCarl Pavano (11-6, 3.12). They, along with Jeff Suppan (6-1, 5.07),give the ...
Braves slam Avery, sweep away Red Sox
Sep 01, 1997; ... Does anybody have a clue as to what is wrong with Red Soxlefthander Steve Avery? Lately, he can't beat anyone. And hisperformance against the Atlanta Braves last night was downrightembarrassing. Even Avery agreed that the 7-3 loss to his former teammates andTom Glavine was one of ...
Space station could be target for flying junk
Sep 01, 1997; ... Imagine a tiny speck of old paint, no bigger than a sesame seed,zooming so fast that it could smash into a pane of glass and leave adeep crater. That's what happens in the near-Earth space where the spaceshuttle and the planned International Space Station travel. Back in1983, ...
Massive MBTA train-repair station almost up and running
Sep 01, 1997; ... That big purplish building just across the river in Charlestown isthe new Boston Engine Terminal. Under construction for two years and nearly complete, it replacesthat old roundhouse-type structure where the MBTA did most of therepairs on its heavy rail equipment -- the full-sized ...
Voyeurism won, even in coverage of death
Sep 01, 1997; ... Ed Siegel, the Globe's critic at large, was formerly the paper'stelevision critic. Wherever we looked, particularly on the plethora of new newschannels, we could not get away from coverage of the death of aprincess. There were the photos greeting us in the morningnewspapers -- the ...
An A&E salute to Andy Griffith
Sep 01, 1997 ... The program opens appropriately with the whistled theme to "TheAndy Griffith Show." "I loved him from the moment I met him, and Istill do," Patricia Neal says. "Andy feels kind of like the greatestuncle you could ever have," Ron Howard says. "He's an incredibleactor," Roddy McDowall ...
Howard S. Walker, 103 Was woodworker, Navy veteran
Sep 01, 1997 ... Howard S. Walker of Weymouth, a US Navy veteran of World War I anda retired woodworker and joiner, died Saturday at the ColonialNursing Home in Weymouth. He was 103. Mr. Walker was one of the oldest US Navy veterans inMassachusetts. He was a lifelong member of the First ...
Battered women get break Violence victims on aid won't be made to work
Sep 01, 1997; ... Beginning today, victims of domestic violence who receive publicassistance will be allowed to apply for waivers from key provisionsof the state's strict welfare regulations. Although the state's welfare overhaul requires able-bodiedrecipients with school-age children to work within ...
WORK ORDER
Sep 01, 1997 ... A youth bicycles by a sign at the Milwaukee Welfare Warriorsoffice opposing a requirement ...
Even in the end, no peace awaits Diana
Sep 01, 1997; ... The media made her part of our lives. Her image was everywhere,all over magazines and newspapers, the most-photographed woman in theworld. Her every public move was recorded and scrutinized, herprivate life was the subject of endless speculation and relentlessintrusion. We watched ...
The warm and fuzzy world of `Wimzie'
Sep 01, 1997; ...The cause of constructive video parenting gets a nice boost from"Wimzie's House," a Muppet/"Sesame Street" clone from the producersof the hit PBS children's show "Arthur." "Wimzie" is the top-ratedchildren's show in Canada. Wimzie is a 5-year-old puppet monster who lives happily ...
Boosting your take-home pay
Sep 01, 1997; ... Charles A. Jaffe can be reached by e-mail at jaffe(at sign)globe.comor at The Boston Globe, Box 2378, Boston, MA 02107-2378. For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay"because home is the only place they can afford to go with it. They can't go out, they can't spend ...
100 years of Boston's subway
Sep 01, 1997 ... It's the oldest subway system in America. Regular users bothrevere it and lodge their complaints: The trains aren't on time, orthe station is dirty. Visitors exclaim about what a handy, valuableoption it is for getting around in a crowded city, a city squeezedincreasingly for a decade or ...