Word: 000th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a strange man phoned Stephen Waters '85 last Thursday and invited him to a celebration in his own honor. Waters was understandably suspicious. Waters listened on, and was told that the Coop, in commemoration of its 100th anniversary, planned to honor him, its 100,000th member, in festivities this weekend...
...steadfast companion for a quarter-century, Hugh ("Lumpy") Brannum, better known as Mr. Green Jeans. Like Keeshan or, for that matter, George Burns, Brannum has no intention of hanging up his overalls. "It's been a banner year," he crowed. "Not only did we tape our 7,000th show and complete our 25th season, but I signed another five-year contract in March, just two months after I turned...
...possibilities of such a massive gift of God seemed endless. In his first Inaugural Address, Thomas Jefferson spoke of the country having "room enough for our descendants to the 100th and 1,000th generation." In 1839 the Democratic Review proclaimed with apostolic expansiveness: "Our national birth was the beginning of a new history. . .which separates us from the past and connects us with the future only." Americans have always carried their highly idealized beginning with them like a marmoreal totem. They invented themselves. That invention became their legitimizing idea, the germ of their justification...
...business. A man who could have foreseen the long-hair rebellion of the mid-'60s might not have put his money into barber poles then. But by 1967 Marvy's factory, working two shifts a day of twelve to 15 men each, had turned out its 50,000th pole. That one is an elegant rig with gold-plated castings, which is still hanging on a wall of his office, many hundreds of years in time and perhaps more in abstraction from the display that first signified a barbershop: the bloody bandages of the old barber-surgeons, hung outside...