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Senior Deborah Abeles blasted a solo shot off of Nicole Zitarelli with two outs in the top of the fifth inning, breaking a scoreless tie and propelling the Crimson to victory. The game-winning blast was Abeles' third of the season and the 20th of her career. As a junior, she set a Harvard softball record with 10 homeruns...
Lynching was a form of terror, which is murder with a message to send. In the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, when lynching became both a mass frenzy and a coolly purposeful instrument of white supremacy, you could send the message by postcard. Scores of mob murders were caught on film by newspapers, by studio photographers who set up at the scene and by onlookers who brought along a camera. Fifteen years ago, James Allen, an Atlanta antiques dealer, was inspecting an old desk. In one of the drawers, he came across...
DIED. GISELE FREUND, 91, German-born photographer whose penetrating images of the literary and artistic haute societe of 20th century France became icons of the cultural milieu; in Paris. Among her many subjects: Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Malraux, James Joyce--and President Francois Mitterrand, for his official photo...
DIED. ANTHONY POWELL, 94, British social-comic novelist, whose richly woven 12-volume A Dance to the Music of Time chronicles the genteel manners and morals of Britain's upper-middle class from World War I to the 1970s; in Frome, England. One of Britain's 20th century greats, Powell was the last of the Brideshead generation of writers that included Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and George Orwell...
...ooking back on Pudding history, every era has presented the club with obstacles (see ), but no time has compared with the past 30 years, which have proved devastating. For the first half of the 20th century, the Pudding remained static. The members--white males from privileged families--pulled out female garb and other outrageous costumes every year for the big show and fraternized the rest of the year on special club nights. Other than the creation of the Kroks in 1944 by a group of four guys who liked hanging out in the second floor bar, little of lasting significance...