New Boston Recreation Board, whose job is to build up and coordinate recreational activities in the city, held its first meeting yesterday. Seated, left to right: Miss Ellen H. Gleason, Mayor Kerrigan and Park Commissioner William P. Long. Standing, left to right: Thomas J. Turley, chairman of the seven-man board, James E. Murphy. Joseph Lee, Richard P. Casey and Joseph V. Comerford.

Esplanade concert

Elisabeth Neumann, freed recently from East German prison, and her fiancé, Lyle Jenkins, MIT student who flew to Germany to meet her on her release, are greeted at Logan Airport by Jenkins' nephew, Saarin Auker, 3, of Cambridge, a bearer of red roses

“Operation Minuteman,” the nationwide test alert of the Army and Air National Guard was touched off by Major General Edgar C. Erickson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, who is shown here advising the chiefs of The Army and Air Force Divisions of the Bureau, (Major General William H. Abendroth, U.S. Army, and Brigadier General Winston P. Wilson, U.S. Air Force) that word has been flashed to the States and territories alerting more than 350,000 members of Army and Air National Guard Units. More than 2400 communities were affected by the historical test alert in which over 5500 army and air units of The National Guard participated. Washington, D.C. 20 April 1955. Official U.S. Army photo released by Dept. of Defense.

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