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Alan Dary, popular host of Boston radio shows; at 89

From behind his bedroom’s closed door, a young Alan Dary could often be heard talking at length. At first, it surprised his mother, who could not imagine who was on the other end of the conversation. She quickly found out he was reading aloud from the ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Perry Como,  Frank Sinatra,  Tony Bennett,  Glenn Miller,  Alfred Hitchcock

Mother, children hit by car in Lowell

A 60-year-old Lowell man was arrested early yesterday evening and charged with operating under the influence of alcohol after his vehicle struck a mother and her two children in a crosswalk, police said. Police said that if he is convicted, it would be ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  23 Nov 2009

Dozen from New England named Rhodes Scholars

Ugwechi Amadi had to turn down the volume on her phone so her parents’ screams of delight did not deafen her as she told them the big news. Amadi, 21, a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was one of 32 students nationwide to be named a ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Harvard University,  Edward M. Kennedy,  Cecil Rhodes

Paul C. Zamecnik, at 96; discoveries helped revolutionize biochemistry

When Paul C. Zamecnik was interning at Case Western Reserve University Hospital in Cleveland in 1938, a 375-pound woman died within a week of entering the facility, and subsequent tests revealed the organs were infiltrated with fat. “Why fat, I ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvard Medical School,  Massachusetts General Hospital

Margaret Howland, 92; gave the needy her time, attention

Before items hit the shelves of the Thrift Shop of Boston Inc., Margaret Clarke Howland would sift through them in the back storeroom, looking for that boy’s size 6 pair of navy pants or whatever item a customer had requested, foraging through mound ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  7 Nov 2009

Missing for decades, but not forgotten

WOBURN - Melanie Melanson’s 35th birthday came and went yesterday. She was not there to celebrate, so family and friends gathered to remember the young woman who disappeared 20 years ago, just days before she would have turned 15. Last evening, those ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  2 Nov 2009

Alice Schafer, 94; math professor breached social barriers

A lake at the University of Richmond marked the physical and cultural divide between the men’s and women’s colleges in the early 1930s, but when Alice Turner Schafer arrived as a young student, the dean advised her to challenge the historical social ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of Chicago,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Man stabbed at Boston Medical Center

A 38-year-old man was critically injured in a stabbing yesterday at Boston Medical Center, where an altercation broke out between two groups of people in a waiting room, authorities said. The victim, whose name was not released, was stabbed in the neck ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Boston Medical Center,  Massachusetts General Hospital,  Harvard University

Hopefuls add dash of politics to Columbus Day parade

They sat in eateries on opposite sides and opposing ends of Hanover Street yesterday, catching a breather from their day’s campaign for mayor of Boston. Wind whipped up the red, white, and blue confetti into a swirl along the street that lay between ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sam Yoon,  Thomas M. Menino,  Michael F. Flaherty,  John Eliot

Karel Frederik Liem, 73; was biologist, Harvard professor

A chance encounter with an eel-like, 2-foot-long creature during a college trip to collect amphibians for a delectable frogs’ legs dish grabbed the attention of Dr. Karel Frederik Liem, and roughly a half-century later, he was still asking ...

From EMMA STICKGOLD, Boston Globe,  4 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Museum of Natural History

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