Word: dickerson
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Cambridge's history includes much more than the University. Once it was a city of towering plants and coughing smokestacks--"we had a Ford plant cranking out Model T's on Memorial Drive," William Dickerson, a member of the Celebrations Committee, recalled...
Along the way Cambridge produced its share of notables: botanist Louis Agassiz, jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, actor Walter Brennan, cartoonist Al Capp and camera mogul Edwin Land. "Even Josiah Bartlett, the man who wrote Bartlett's Quotations, lived here," Dickerson said...
Some local historians, unwilling to get only facts surrounding the Revolutionary War, aren't stopping with written records. One ceremony, Dickerson said, may even commemorate the journey of Leif Ericson up the Charles River to the site of Mt. Auburn Hospital nearly 1000 years ago. Honest, there's even a placque that says he was there...
...Sandra Rachel, 36, a Dickerson, Md., housewife, the pain and stiffness were almost unbearable. Even dressing required aid. Often the swelling in her joints was so severe that she could not get out of bed before noon. No medications seemed to help. That was a year ago. Today Rachel can dress easily, do household chores and climb up the nine flights of stairs to her doctor's office. Her startling rejuvenation is in part the result of a novel experimental treatment that may eventually help many other victims of severe rheumatoid arthritis as well...
...press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson, Auntie Mameish Liz Carpenter is heading home to Austin, Texas, "to think more, to write more and to raise a little hell." At a farewell party at Ford's Theater, Old Friends Pearl Bailey and Carol Charming sang a duet, and Nancy Dickerson and Gloria Steinem helped narrate Carpenter's life story. But stealing the show, as usual, was Liz herself. "I stand here as the only Democrat leaving town," she told the 650 guests. Reminiscing a bit, Carpenter, 56, cracked: "I can remember most of the men's first wives...