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Since he is a millionaire recluse who lives with a monkey and wears a single sequined glove, Michael Jackson qualifies. So does President Andrew Jackson, a card-carrying aristocrat who insisted on creating a backwoods image as "Old Hickory." Prominent achievers like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford all fit the profile. Others that make the grade are less well known. They include a Long Island vampire expert, a California professor of frog psychology and a Virginia doctor who disports himself in a clown's nose and goofy hats and refuses to charge his patients...
...loss was caused reportedly by a failure in a Boston & Maine Railroad power plant that supplies most of the Garden's power. Corridor lights with power supplied by Boston Edison Co. remained illuminated allowing the Garden crowd to exit...
...Boston Edison sent some crews over to the Garden to check out the problem, utility spokesman Mike Spataro said. "Our preliminary analysis is that it is not an Edison-related problem, it might be a Garden-related problem....We don't have any reports of any other outages in the North Station area. This seems to be right now a Garden problem," he said...
Clean Harbors, Inc., a Braintree based company contracted by Boston Edison to clean up the oil spill, pumped the oil-tainted water from the hole, while Boston Edison workers chipped through the concrete surrounding the pipe to reach the leak, Monahan said...
...clean-up expenses were paid for by Boston Edison, who hired contractors in addition to Clean Harbors to do the repair work. The leak did not affect electrical service as the transmission line had been taken out of service earlier...