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Focuses on the origin and growth of Boston, Massachusetts' newspaper "Boston Phoenix." Influence of the newspaper on Boston' liberal paper "Globe"; Difficulties faced by the paper over editorial content and management; Operating losses suffered by the "Boston Phoenix"; Circulation of the newspaper in 1972.

The article discusses the challenges faced by the government of Boston in Massachusetts as it aims to initiate modernization processes in the city in 1954. The biggest industrial category in Boston is manufacturing which allows the city to compete well against other cities in the U.S. in 1951. According to the author, Boston ranks fourth in allied and paper industries as well as in publishing and printing business categories.

The article discusses the rising trend of term paper by the collegians in Boston, Massachusetts. It states that the reason appears under several names including Universal Termpapers, Termpapers Unlimited and Quality Bullshit. It states that the organizations have turned out around 4,000 term papers for the students willing to pay 3 dollar a page for standardized material and 6 dollar a page for custom-made. It also states that ghostwriting on a modest scale has been a campus ploy.

The article reports on the efforts by newspapers in Boston, Massachusetts in boosting circulation after implementing price increases. Among the newspapers that posted reduced profits were "Post," "Herald," and "Globe." The reasons cited for the problems faced by Boston's newspapers include an overcrowded market, display advertisements, and oversized headlines. In response to a drop in circulation, the newspapers launched contests to lure readers back.

The article reports on the announcement made by George Akerson, publisher of the "Boston Traveler," that the newspaper will stop its presses for good in Massachusetts on July 10, 1967. Akerson explains that the paper had fallen a few thousand copies behind the Herald-Traveler Corp., and he found increasing difficulty in the afternoon field. In response, Akerson reverses the paper's circulation decline by expanding regional coverage, and removing advertisements from the front page.

The article offers information on several scientific papers presented at a recently held meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston, Massachusetts. Dependence of biology on physics was discussed by several naturalists including Richard S. Bear, Ernest C. Pollard and Barbara W. Low. All living creatures including human beings are affected by the laws that govern matter and the study of matter comes under physics.

The article focuses on the financial crisis faced by Herald Traveler Corp. in Boston, Massachusetts. According to its president Harold Clancy, the newspaper has been generating substantial losses which cannot support the present operation. Moreover, stockholders outside the country will likely favor for liquidation although local shareholders wants to keep the paper going. It adds that the loss of the company's television station WHDH has hampered the supposedly support of Hearst Corp.

The article reports that two newspapers of Boston, Massachusetts, namely "Boston After Dark" (BAD) and "Cambridge Phoenix " are involved in intense competition to win maximum readership and subscriptions. BAD strengthened its news coverage to stay in the competition. Both newspapers published stories on a Boston fire that took eight lives. Ted Gross, editor of BAD, says that the competition allows newspapers to presents news items in the best possible way.

Boston, located in Massachusetts, is the abandoned farm of American literature, journalistically it is the poor-farm of the U.S. Nothing in Boston astonishes foreigners more than its press, nothing more clearly illustrates the passing of what was once the Athens of the U.S. To understand in full the degradation of its dailies one must know the extraordinary transformation which has come over the stronghold of the Puritans, one must realize that the Boston of today has comparatively little in common with that of forty years ago.

The 126th meeting of the American Oriental Society was held in Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge on April 16 and 17, 1914. The attendance was somewhat smaller than usual, though all the leading institutions at which Oriental studies are carried on were represented. The two sessions on Thursday and the one on Friday morning were held in the handsome quarters of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, admirably adapted for gatherings of scientific bodies, while the session on Friday afternoon was in the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard. Preceding the reading of papers there was a short business meeting, at which various reports were read and the more important correspondence with foreign scholars and institutions during the year.

The article presents information on the "25th Anniversary Conference" of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which would be held in Boston, from August 14-16, 1972. Adrian Ruyle, ACM 72 general conference chairman, states that meeting would be a showcase of what ACM is doing now: it will reflect the full range of ACM's presents interests and activities. The Technical Program would be a coordination of the efforts of ACM's 27 Special Interest Groups and Special Interest Committees. The Commercial Program, offered in lieu of exhibits, will aim to cover current developments in the business sector of data processing. John. J. Donovan, chairman of the ACM 72 Technical Program Committee, states that the committee planned the technical program with three goals in mind: to help the professionals and students; to serve knowledgeable professionals by providing high quality, advanced technical sessions; to reduce the time lag between the generation of results and their public presentation by having immediate state-of-the-art sessions.

The article presents a perspective on the impact of the Sacco-Vanzetti case in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. According to the author, the city has absorbed in, and obsessed by the case of two Italian radicals. The author added that the issue has occasioned a controversy of extraordinary bitterness all over the city.

The article deals with the decision of tycoon John Fox of Boston, Massachusetts to purchase Boston's "Post" newspaper for 3,100,000 U.S. dollars. Fox bought the newspaper using his unorthodox approach of buying securities when nobody loves them. A brief history of the newspaper is presented. It is also noted that the newspaper's 125 staffers are hoping the Fox could revive the ailing publication.

The article reports that Hyde Park, Massachusetts-based Chaplin & Horton has produced hand-beaten gold leaf for the repainting of the dome of Massachusetts State House in Boston. It states that the production of the gold leaf is done by melting 23 1/2 karat gold at 160 degrees Fahrenheit and cooling down the molten gold in a mold. Moreover, booking the trimmed leaves, which consists of putting them between sheets of paper, is the final operation of the production of the gold leaf.

The author talks about painting and her art influences. She cites the inspirations derived from the collection of oriental art in the world featured in exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. She considers the textures and patterns of nature, the variations of growing things, and objects in sunlight and in shade as the subjects that interest her. She shares that she does not follow any scientific formula for developing color schemes.

This article announces several events related to communication, including the Advance Program Available for Summer Simulation Conference to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, The First European Conference on Computational Physics in Geneva, Switzerland, and two Symposium on Pedagogic Languages with Small Computers in Lawrence, Kansas.

This article presents news items, related to newspapers. When the late Leroy M. Bickford, of Boston, Massachusetts, provided recently in his will, that a copy of a Boston newspaper should be placed, daily, in every home in Newburg, Maine--his birthplace he doubtless thought that he was conferring "a great boon" upon the community in which he "first saw the light." It is painful to record the fact that the press throughout the country altogether fails to share his view. There is at least one Boston paper, which is establishing a position of curious prestige in the American press. The newspaper referred is the "Christian Science Monitor." It was the first newspaper, to record the serious general strike which broke out in Australia some months ago. That strike was sufficiently political in color to cause the censor to suppress all cable accounts of it, but the newspaper jogged along with a full report more than a week ahead of all other press dispatches on the subject.

The article focuses on the citywide newspaper strike of the independent mailers' union in Boston, Massachusetts. It states that the Boston mailers struck independently for higher wages causing the ban of newspapers, and hope to build new factories where automation will reduce the number of mailers' tasks. Moreover, settlements under the local news coverage and the resumed distribution of newspaper in Boston showed the incapacity of press to boost its normal newsstand quota.

The workers of Boston, Massachusetts, have built a house of which they are proud. Not many miles from Plymouth Rock on the shores of Massachusetts Bay it stands, a half-brick half-wooden bungalow, which an American workingman, assert may mean almost as much to future civilization as that rock. This house was undertaken at a time when building materials had reached the top notch and labor was still one dollar an hour. A foreman was elected and a building committee consisting of bricklayers, carpenters, steam fitters, plumbers, plasterers, and paper hangers was chosen.

The article discusses a survey of 13 key U.S. cities by the periodical reveals that the big car makers still have a long way to go before the work through their backlogs. According to the poll, in spite of production hike, it takes from three months to one year to get popular models. Dealers for the Big Three, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, cited the longest waiting periods and the fewest promises. A sample of the replies from dealers in principal cities, including New York City, Boston in Massachusetts, and Atlanta in Georgia, is presented.

This article presents information about the upcoming meetings and events related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Association for Symbolic Logic are cosponsoring a symposium on "Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science" in New York during April 5-7, 1966. The Symposium is being held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in conjunction with the AMS Meeting. The seventh international meeting of the SDS Users Group will be held during April 28-30 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. The meeting will include panel discussions on real-time computer systems, simulation, and time sharing. Hardware and software reports will be presented by the SDS staff. Sol Zasluff, SDS manager of market support, will be one of several featured speakers. The 18th semi-annual meeting of TUG, the Philco 2000 group, will be held at Newpurter Inn in Newport Beach, California during April 13-14. Host for the meeting will be Andre White, manager of the digital computer department at the Aeronutrunic Division of Philco Corp. in Newport Beach

The article highlights that managing editor Henrietta Perkins has recently denounced the R.O.T.C. unit at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. As managing editor of the college comic weekly, the Beanpot, she issued jokes devoted to the glories of the Boston University R.O.T.C. She displayed in this joke all the most seditious and dangerous qualities that a human being can have. The dean immediately demanded her resignation from the staff of the paper and suggested that action might be taken to remove her bodily from the college. The jokes were reprinted in the Boston press, the drawings were reproduced and Perkins was widely quoted.

This article discusses the matter related to science. The autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, held in Boston, Massachusetts November 20, 21, 22, 1906 in the new buildings at the Harvard Medical School, was notable in several respects. The papers presented by guests and members in the scientific sessions of the Academy included the following "Experiments in Aerodromics," by A.G. Bell of Washington, "Acoustic Measurements," by A.G. Webster of Clark University, "Continental Sedimentation," by J. Barrell at Yale, "Evidence of Desiccation in Chinese Turkestan," by Ellswort'h Huntington of Harvard, and others.

The article presents information on various developments of importance in the U.S. and other countries as of October 4, 1888. The city of Boston in Massachusetts has become greatly stirred up over the question of Roman Catholic influence in the conduct of public school. The provoking cause of the stir is the exclusion by the school committee of a text-book which members of the Catholic Church considered objectionable because of a reference to that church. The result is a general disposition on the part of women to avail themselves of the right to suffrage.

The article features artist Charles Demetropoulos and his watercolor paintings. His subjects in his artworks were mainly street scenes in Boston, Massachusetts, the coastline of New England, and the scenes in Greece and its isles. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1912 and was educated at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. His materials in painting include brushes made of camel's hair, sable and bristle.

The article presents a corporate profile of Compugraphic Corp., owned by entrepreneur William W. Garth, Jr., in Boston, Massachusetts. He founded the company in 1967 by hiring engineers to build a printing technology for newspaper companies. He invested about 30,000 dollars in phototypesetting machines and instructed his engineers to develop stripped-down machines to sell small daily and weekly newspapers.

A photograph of an official marker that was set up as a part of the program of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) to help civilian flyers locate themselves in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974 is presented.

The Club of Odd Volumes of Boston has recently published "Isaiah Thomas, Printer, Writer & Collector," by Dr. Charles L. Nichols of Worcester. This is the substance of a paper read before the Club a year ago, which is here expanded by the addition at a carefully compiled bibliography of books printed by Thomas. He was apprenticed to Zechariah Fowle, owner of a single press and a few hundred pounds of type, when the lad was only seven years old, and he used to set type standing on a bench, in order that he might reach the eases, though he knew then only the letters, and had not been taught to put then together and spell.