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...middle and late '30s were the days of the "gentleman's C." In 1936-1937 many students relied on private "tutoring schools" for supplemental instruction and academic assistance. The following editorial, while generally warm to the schools, highlights the dangers which they could promote if not carefully regulated. In the process, the editorial points to the often inadequate qualify of classroom instruction, as well as the sometimes shaky preparation for and weak efforts expended on academic matters by Harvard's students...
...Brenda Frazier was not the richest or the most beautiful girl in '30s America, she came close enough. She was the glittering symbol of privilege and glamour; her picture made the cover of LIFE; women imitated her Kabuki-like look, with a complexion evoking Colette's description of "milk in shadow." Brenda was seen with notables from Errol Flynn to Cardinal Spellman to Irving Berlin. But obscurity overtook her, and in later years she viewed her life as a cosmic joke: she had become one of the most famous people in the nation simply because of a debutante party...
Like many lovers, Martin, the electrical worker, kept his infection a secret, which he came to regret after ending his relationship with Debbie (not her real name), a secretary in her early 30s. He met Debbie in June 1985, and their affair was idyllic until early August, when she broke out in painful blisters around her vagina. After that, says Debbie, "the relationship deteriorated, and by Labor Day he dumped me and left me alone with a case of herpes...
Abbott, 33, a Cambridge history graduate and now a press officer for the local council in Lambeth, says her politics was influenced by U.S. civil rights activists. "People like me in their 30s had our ideas shaped by Angela Davis and the black-power movement," she says. Grant, who heads the local council in Haringey, has been unflatteringly labeled Barmy Bernie by conservative tabloids. It was he who declared that police had been given a "bloody good hiding" after a 1985 race riot in Tottenham during which a patrolman was hacked to death. Grant has since kept a relatively...
...Statue of Liberty. But the feature that most people will probably remember is her hair, whipping seductively around her in Gilda, cascading over her shoulders on the cover of LIFE and in thousands of World War II pinup posters. If Jean Harlow was Hollywood's love goddess in the '30s and Marilyn Monroe in the '50s, the '40s ideal was Rita Hayworth, who died at 68 last week in Manhattan of complications from Alzheimer's disease...