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They used to joke in Lexington, Mass., that new residents didn't need to join a country club-they already had the Hancock Congregational Church. The gibe was unjust, but for a time it almost seemed as if Sunday worship services were lost in a crowded weekly calendar of dances, card parties, and other social affairs. Then, in 1948, a young engineer named Albert Wilson persuaded his new minister at Hancock, the Rev. Roy Pearson, to support a group of couples who would gather periodically for the study of Scripture and the mutual exploration of Christ's message...
...conduct the London Symphony, the former leader of the San Francisco Symphony took time out to realize a boyhood dream-donning a dandy fireman's hat and watching a ding-dong drill put on by the London Fire Brigade. The maestro loves to boast: "In my home town, Hancock, Maine, I built them a depot and bought an engine, and the population is only 400, so I guess I'm chief of the smallest fire department in America...
Although it has long been the largest university endowment in the nation, Harvard's investments began modestly. In 1777, after 141 years they still totalled only $55,000. Funds were managed by treasurer John Hancock, who like most of his successors (including the present treasurer Paul C. Cabot '21) was a Boston investment banker...
...Hancock based his production on Brecht's original text written in the 1920's and adapted by Eric Bentley. Howard Taubman of the Times noted that "his (Bentley's) English accomplishes the feat of making Brecht seem at home among...
Taubman observed that "under John Hancock's direction this production approaches the manner and mood of the Brecht Theater in East Berlin." The Hancock version is "tougher in texture, lighter in construction and more focused on dramatic drive than the Living Theater version...