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During the summer, Lewis worked as a copy-boy at the Times, and after graduation he took a full-time job there. Except for a brief stint at the Washington Daily News from 1952 to 1955, where he distinguished himself reporting on the Navy's Loyalty Security Program, Lewis has worked for the Times all his life...
George A. Plimpton '48 is an acclaimed writer and humorist, perhaps best-known for Paper Lion, a book describing his brief foray as a member of the Detroit Lions. He is also the editor of The Paris Review. While an undergraduate, he enjoyed mocking The Crimson as a member of a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...those two-and-a-half years between 1968 (and the "opening" of Lamont) and 1971 (the beginning of the coresidential experiment), Radcliffe had a brief halcyon spell and the best of both worlds. We had then, at the ages of 17, 18, 19, 20, protective nurturing from a college that existed exclusively for us, in tandem with untrammeled access to Harvard's faculty, libraries and classrooms. Perhaps even more importantly, we had the privilege of being introduced into a community of women, then physically still intact, that would prove in after years an even more invaluable resource...
...blame that on the rodents. They are bred to spend their brief lives (about two years) as test subjects--a job they do pretty well. "As mammals with physical systems somewhat like our own, they give us a relatively quick, inexpensive way of getting at the causes of disease and possible therapies," says Dr. Kenneth Paigen, director of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, the world's most famous mouse-breeding facility. Each year the lab ships out some 2 million mice from more than 1,700 stocks, including so-called designer mice with genes added or deleted...
...After a brief investigation, police concluded that Prentice climbed over a six foot wall onto the greenhouse and fell through its glass ceiling...