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Motion Picture Academy Celebrates Gregory Peck Collection
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued the following news release:
A special celebration of the gift of the Gregory Peck Collection to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences took place on Monday, November 20, with Peck family, friends and industry colleagues, gathering for the occasion in the Academy's Grand Lobby and in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
In one of the highlights of the evening, Veronique Peck, wife of the Oscar®-winning actor, and Academy President Sid Ganis displayed Peck's extensively annotated personal copy of the script for "To Kill a Mockingbird" as a ...
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WHAT'S IN A NAME? Willard Street, Quincy
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; ...Chickatawbut Road to the Quincy-Milton border near Adams Street. WHEN IT WAS NAMED: 1836 NAMED FOR: Solomon Willard, 1783 to 1861 HISTORY: Solomon Willard designed and oversaw construction of the Bunker Hill Monument. He discovered satisfactory granite...
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REV. WARREN W. WILLARD, AT 94; WAS DECORATED AS NAVY CHAPLAIN
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...The Rev. Warren Wyeth Willard, a Navy chaplain who...with the Marines on the Solomon Islands in World War...Sandwich. He was 94. Mr. Willard was personally awarded...to the dying." Mr. Willard's wartime letters from...grocery store in the Solomon Islands. "I aided the...
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WILLARD COMBINES BOOKS, FILMS FOR SUMMER FUN
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press
; ...that are not their own." The Willard Library Children's Room chose...answer to the names of Ivory and Solomon. She also brought along her...the birds from his stroller. Willard kicked off its children's...James & the Giant Peach"; Willard's Day at the Movies July...
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OBIT - SOLOMON, VIRGINIA BERNICE KESLER
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News
; SOLOMON, Virginia Bernice Kesler...Young Kesler and a brother, Willard Kesler. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, LeRoy Solomon; sons and daughters-in-law, Gary and Brenda Solomon, Roger and Terri Solomon...
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Blue Cross purchases State St. property
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; ...and Blue Shield has purchased the Solomon Willard building at One Enterprise Drive...to the 345,000- square-foot Willard building are working in three smaller...Newport Ave. will move to the Willard building by 2006. "We see this...
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Tools and Machinery of the Granite Industry, Part II
Magazine article from: The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc.
; ...counterweighted boom. Four centuries later, Solomon Willard (circa 1820s) invented or perfected...lifting jack, very similar to Willard's jack, was still being made...Figure 3). A modern counterpart of Willard's pulling jack is the "tugger...
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REVIVAL REDUX
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...the Suffolk County Courthouse. The architect was Solomon Willard, and Willard was a granite junkie. He supervised a quarry in...Monument and figured out how to build it. Because of Willard, huge blocks of granite became, for decades...
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CITY SEEN; A new task for Quincy's Partnership?
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; ...Indians. Cynics argue Morton's better business skills forced the Pilgrims to eliminate a competitor. Willard Street: Solomon Willard, the father of the American granite industry. He supervised granite cutting for Bunker Hill in the 1820s...
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UNLIKELY ALLIES SEEK TO PRESERVE SMALL PARK
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...will gain from allowing this vital little park and its view of the massive granite west face of the Solomon Willard church to be destroyed." Willard was the supervising architect for the Bunker Hill Monument. Opponents of the development offered...
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Seeking progress on ramp ; History, access in familiar clash; Framingham
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...federal funds to make one of them, the Greek Revival-style Village Hall, accessible. Village Hall, built by Solomon Willard, designer of the Bunker Hill Monument, once served as a Framingham's municipal headquarters, and is included...
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