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...both accessorized with large, metallic blue butterflies, one would never guess that the sash across his chest that reads “Brother Blue: Storyteller” could also list a number of his academic accomplishments. Brother Blue began his street performing career as a Harvard undergraduate in the 1940s, telling stories in the Square. He has the credentials of a University professor, including an M.F.A. from the Yale Drama School and a Ph.D. from the Union Institute. Brother Blue also served as the storyteller in residence at the Harvard Divinity school from 1974-1976. Now a member...
...road. Dartmouth won’t have to wait 12 more years to beat the team in blue and red again, but it also won’t get its first season sweep of Penn since 1959. The Big Green did sweep the Quakers eight times in the 1940s and 50s when it also played in the NCAA championship game twice. Times have changed. Penn 70, Dartmouth...
...choice.”Historically, Pepsi has navigated the management of its image deftly. While the red, white, and blue graphic in question is now as recognizable as the name Pepsi itself, it was a relative late-comer to the brand’s image. Originally wrought in the 1940s as a show of patriotism and support for a nation at war, the Pepsi Globe stuck, though its message soon evolved from one of simple national encouragement to one that aimed to relate the brand to the hipper American ideals of ingenuity, newness and—yes—hope...
Friends called her the "cowgirl of the typewriter." She started in 1941 on a simple script rewrite, and over a 10-year career during the 1940s and '50s, Frances Kavanaugh, 93, wrote nearly 30 screenplays for westerns, a genre dominated by men on both sides of the camera...
...would be a stark departure from the Bush Administration's us-vs.-them, neo--Cold War approach to the world, and it would be far better received. It would still be hard to achieve, given that global power is far more diffuse today than it was in the late 1940s, the last time the U.S. helped build a new international architecture for a new world. But it would be an aggressive, farsighted agenda, launched by an America strong enough to play offense again. If Obama can make U.S. foreign policy solvent, he'll do more than cut our losses...