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Janice Harvey: Andrew Noone joins pantheon of local authors with 'Bathsheba Spooner' Janice Harvey Special to Worcester Magazine In my living a room, there’s a shelf devoted to local writers. When I was teaching English I kept this collection on display in my classroom to inspire young authors. Included are the works of Jack O’Connell, Stanley Kunitz, John Dufresne, Kevin Harvey, Elizabeth Bishop, Ray Slater, Paul Della Valle, Joe Fusco, Jr., Robert Benchley — and now, Andrew Noone. I met Andrew Noone in the third grade at Columbus Park elementary school. Instantly I was teased in the...
Harpo Marx, South Carolinaâs Voting History and Other Letters to the Editor Credit...TBD To the Editor: I was pleased to see Jason Zinoman acknowledge âHarpo Speaks!,â by Harpo Marx, as the gold standard of the comedian memoir (Feb. 21). As a teenager in the early â60s, I got my hands on the book and found it to be thoroughly entertaining. Particularly enjoyable is the chapter about Harpoâs trip to Russia in the fall of 1933. He ended up spending eight weeks there and put on shows that earned him standing ovations. Posters that announced his appearances, written in Cy...
Al Southwick: Sacco and Vanzetti and the Worcester connections Al Southwick The news stories about the Sacco and Vanzetti exhibit in the John Adams Courthouse in Boston brought me back to a day in October 1932. My father drove our old Essex slowly up Institute Road from Park Avenue and stopped at Beechmont Street. There we and others gazed at a wrecked house on the corner. It was the home of Judge Webster Thayer. It had been blasted by a bomb the night before. A policeman watched warily as we took in the scene. The crime was never solved, but few doubted that it was retaliation for Judge Thay...
Do you manage up or down? It’s not easy to spot those who spend all their energy looking up, so organizations need systems to root them out. Photograph by andresr “There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.” Though the above notion has been attributed to many people over the years, including Groucho Marx, several citations suggest it was Robert Benchley, the American humorist, who first captured that idea 101 years ago in a Vanity Fair article. I confess I am solidly in the form...