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...Winchell, the ex-vaudevillian whose three-alarm radio voice exactly suited his brassy prose style, was by 1940 the highest-paid man in America. He made stars and broke them, announced when a celeb got married ("Lohengrinned") or separated ("splitsville" or "phffft"). He gave advice to F.D.R. and took favors from J. Edgar Hoover. At times Winchell was the news, as when Murder Inc. boss Louis Lepke surrendered to him and Hoover; at times the columnist withheld it, when someone like Clare Boothe Luce asked nicely. He created the new world of gossip, and ruled it from such perches...
Another small controversy broke out over the UC-General, the council’s e-mail list, when CLC Co-Chair Michael R. Blickstead ’05 posted an offer from Fun Ventures, the amusement company the council hired for Springfest, to pay students $100 to man their rides...
Later in the show, members of the Harvard World Tae Kwon Do Federation broke one-inch pine boards and concrete slabs with their hands and feet...
Harvard dictated play for the next several minutes, establishing the aggressive forecheck that has given opponents so many problems in the last two weeks. The Crimson had several scoring chances, but it was Cornell who broke the tie, taking advantage of a Harvard defensive breakdown as Palahicky beat Grumet-Morris for the 3-2 lead...
...Crimson outshot the Big Green 7-5 in the opening frame, but it was the Big Green who broke the ice with a goal in the 16th minute by Louise Pietrangelo, who scored on a screen shot...