Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Duncan worked on fund-raising campaigns for Harvard for 65 years, including the $80 million fund drive in the 1940s and several other major and highly successful efforts. His contributions both to education and the field of philanthropy were immense and are readily recounted by those who attempt to carry on his work. President Bok, in a letter to Duncan's son, wrote this week that "As I look ahead at the vital necessity of maintaining private financial support of Harvard and other private institutions, I am tremendously grateful for the pioneering work done by your father in the fund...
Customers can choose for their chests old magazine covers, orange-crate labels from the '20s (JUCIFUL), paintings, cartoons, 1940s line drawings of Stars Charles Boyer, Judy Garland and Errol Flynn and any number of messages that invite massage, including a picture of a stallion labeled STUD. And there are Ts for two: couples may wear matching shirts, or proclaim their love with HIS and HERS (or even more visibly in San Francisco...
...recalling the 1940s, he continually refused to acknowledge any personal distinction from the other thousands in the movements of which he views himself as a part. Even when asked about racial bigotry, Brimmer declines to relate incidents that might have set him apart...
...movie is set in Montreal from the late 1940s onward into the first pale years of the '50s. Buddy's father (Jack Warden) is a taxi driver. His brother is a pre-med student practically numb with the wish to be a WASP, to let the Jewishness drain out of him and get a life-supporting transfusion of blue blood. Buddy, just out of high school, works in a summer resort, tries running a roulette game on the sly, is hoodwinked into smuggling heroin for a fat-fingered hood, concocts on his own all sorts of wild-eyed...
...been written about the curvate star in recent times, at least, has been eminently printable. For her special this winter on NBC, the durable sex kitten is taking the step of readopting her full name: Ann-Margret Olsson. The highlights of the show will doubtless be her takeoffs on 1940s Pinup Queens like Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth. "I am attracted to that era because everything then was so innocent, so happy," she explained sweetly...