Word: armstrong
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Harvard's Board of Overseers has elected distinguished lawyer and active alumna Charlotte P. Armstrong '49 as its president for the 1998-99 year...
...Armstrong is the fourth woman to hold the position in Harvard's history...
...this produced some memorable players. Look around. There's Lenin arriving at the Finland Station and Gandhi marching to the sea to make salt. Winston Churchill with his cigar, Louis Armstrong with his horn, Charlie Chaplin with his cane. Rosa Parks staying seated on her bus and a kid standing in front of a tank near Tiananmen Square. Einstein is in his study, and the Beatles are on The Ed Sullivan Show...
...ALLEN is suing an old man for $12 million, charging him with libel. After reading in the National Enquirer the account of a 71-year-old ex-film librarian named Henry Armstrong in which he described the day he allegedly got run over by Allen and his Ferrari, Allen filed suit, upset that Armstrong's quotes ("He was bleary-eyed and unsteady on his feet, and he never said, 'Sorry.'") made him sound drunk. Armstrong, upset that Allen ran him over, has filed a suit...
Certain exceptional people are lights in winter. (I do hope that I am getting through to you.) Louis Armstrong was one, especially when his eyes gleamed over the mouthpiece of his trumpet. Carole Lombard too had a wit like sunshine. Fred Astaire was light on his feet...