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DIED. Robert Sterling, 88, hunky actor in low-profile 1940s MGM movies who shot to national fame as a ghost, below, with co-stars Anne Jeffreys, his off- and onscreen wife, and Leo G. Carroll, on the hugely popular 1950s TV sitcom Topper; in Brentwood, Calif. Sterling played George Kerby, who, with wife Marion, dies in a skiing accident, then returns to his former home where the spectral couple end up coaching new occupant Cosmo Topper--a cranky banker and the only person who can see the Kerbys--on how to enjoy life...
...were allowed to join the adults at the table for instruction in proper etiquette. By the turn of the century, restaurants had appeared to cater to clerical workers, and in time, eating out became a recreational sport. Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes...
...noise, death grind, new wave, no wave, post punk, prepunk, indie, crust, and whatnot that we can damn well get our hands on.” And their focus is no longer “geared to the tastes of Harvard,” as it was in the 1950s. WHRB President Ashwin Vasan ’99 told The Crimson in 1998 that “Our audience base is not students. The fact that we are in some sense ‘college radio’ is only reflected by the fact that we are staffed...
...first beer party that I ever attended was as a 17-year-old and was at Harvard, at Memorial Hall. They even hired a strip tease artist to perform for us.”While Harvard provided strippers to entertain their male undergraduates in the 1950s, Harvard House Masters strictly regulated how men entertained women in the dormitories. For the Class of 1956, parietals—the hours when women were allowed in male dormitories—restricted how they interacted with the opposite sex. According to the rules, women could be in male dormitories until 11 p.m. on Saturdays...
...mold. “One of the things I did was pick the right spouse,” she says. “If he hadn’t been strongly positive and supportive, I’m not sure what would’ve worked in the 1950s.”After a lackluster job with Education Testing Services, the government concentrator decided further training might provide her with more options and “economics looked interesting.”However, a nearby economics department turned Whitman away. “Princeton wouldn’t have...