All posts tagged "Cambridge Mass."
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18.1K4Arts and LeisureThe 70-Cent Knife That Brought Julia Child to Cambridge, Mass.
Julia Child had a pet peeve: kitchen knives. They were never sharp enough for the beloved French chef. She sometimes swore a...
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7.8K3Arts and LeisureJames Russell Lowell Finds Mrs. Right
James Russell Lowell, a scion of the prominent New England Lowell family, was as great an ass at Harvard ‘as ever brayed...
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22.6K9MassachusettsAlexander Graham Bell Takes Up Medicine
The brilliant inventor Alexander Graham Bell found his greatest success with the telephone,. But perhaps his highest profile effort at inventing came...
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6.1K1Arts and LeisureHarry Grant Wins the Vanderbilt Cup
Harry Grant was the first race car driver to win the Vanderbilt Cup twice – and the only one who died trying...
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8.2K2MassachusettsWashington Arrives in Cambridge To Take Command
George Washington on first sight impressed Dr. James Thacher as ‘noble and majestic.’ Thacher, then 21, was then trying to enlist as a...
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4.7K3Arts and LeisureLeroy Anderson: An Immigrants’ Son Takes A Sleigh Ride to the Hollywood Walk of Fame
In the early 1930s, a Harvard graduate student named Leroy Anderson almost made the biggest mistake of his life. He had taken...
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