What Happened In Needham, Mass., That Made This Guy Make These (brilliant But Creepy) Movies?

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Arizona and Florida team Spring Training sites

"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." - Pablo Neruda

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Shouts & Murmurs

If you’re planning a kids’ Halloween party, steer clear of The Day of the Dead as a theme: http://nyr.kr/p5yYj8

Lots of rain in these parts. Lotta rain.

And there's #findingneverland on the TV. Damn you Xfinity! Killed another two hours that I should have been writing. #seetheshow @americanrep

Happy 140th to the Boston Globe.

very sad, indeed.

Sad bros.

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.

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wisdom...

That's Ben Bradlee, Jr. @ Gibson's Bookstore in Concord, N.H. For a reading and signing of THE KID, the definitive bio of Ted Williams.

Ted declines Harvard’s offer

Exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”: Unlike many professional ballplayers—probably most of them—Ted was embarrassed that he never went to college, or had no formal education beyond high school. In 1991, on the 50th anniversary of his .406 year, Harvard University wanted to give him an honorary degree, but he turned it down, feeling that he would have been out of place among the intelligentsia in Harvard Yard.

(PHOTO: Ted Williams at Boston’s Back Bay station, April 1939, arriving in the city for the first time. Boston Globe photograph.)

Sarah Jane Cook Dakin and Edmund H. Cook via the City of Boston Archives on Flickr.