Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Woodley says she can "cope with kids of this age" because of her experience with her own two children, Pamela and Lance, who were teenagers when Woodley began working at The Crimson. She says her children, and now her grandchildren, continue to keep her young...
...been replaced by wires and networking. Nobody yells "Carp-e-e," although choicer epithets are often used for a dilatory night editor. The practice of releasing unpublished stories to the public press, which had already been suspended once James wrote his article, died a natural death from old age somewhere in the 1920s or 1930s, its grave unmarked. But candidates still botch stories and give "wonderful excuses," and the flavor of a real newspaper is still there...
...rule and less of an exception, and extras were no longer confined to football results. President Eliot's retirement brought not only its best extra to date, but also its biggest scoop. Only the president, managing editor, business manager and printers knew that the patriarch of the Augustan age of Harvard was stepping down until the extra hit the streets. The paper also had the best word the next year on the progress of Eliot's internal struggle over whether to accept Taft's offer of appointment to the Court of St. James. Eliot stayed in Cambridge and The Crimson...
Bunting-Smith, the fifth president of Radcliffe College, died on Wednesday at the age of 87 in her home in Hanover, New Hampshire...
DIED: Carl Perkins, the guy who sang "Blue Suede Shoes" before Elvis did, in his Jackson, Tennessee home at the age of 65. Perkins was part of Sun Records' "Million Dollar" stable that also included Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. Perkins came from the same place as the others -- poor, rural and Southern -- but he spent much of his career on the verge, never quite making it into the big time. Case in point: In 1956, with his first big hit "Blue Suede Shoes" No. 2 on the singles charts, Perkins broke his collarbone in a car accident...