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...Wagoner, Tennessee Pullybone, Charley Pride, and Tammy Wynette. You can hear Buck Owens sing "Jack Daniels (Old No. 7)" as you get a 30-cent draft from Oley (Olga) Sopotnick, then put your quarter on the eight ball table and hear "Arms Full of Empty" and "Borrowed Angel" before Cecil, the shark, polishes off another local, and then you can take your run at the green felt while "Honky Tonk Women" and "Fingertips Part Two" and another hardrock tune take their turns on the box. On the chalkboard is a sign: "Make love and war." But this afternoon...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: In Spudnick's | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Harvard's official endorsement of a male applicants only--in compliance with Cecil S. Rhodes's will--violates the Amendment stipulation barring unequal benefits to students on the basis of sex. The will's guidelines restrict eligibility to candidates exhibiting "qualities of manhood," thereby denying women a right to the scholarship awards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: End Rhodes Discrimination | 2/21/1974 | See Source »

...Polish ghetto, he received his first American name - Goldfish - from an immigration official when he arrived in New York City in 1896 as a 13-year-old. Under it, he prospered as a glove salesman and entered the movies as a partner of Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille. In 1913 they made The Squaw Man, one of the first feature-length films produced in Hollywood. The trio sold out to the combine that became Paramount, and Goldfish teamed with two brothers named Selwyn to make "Goldwyn" pictures. He took the name with him when he was forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Last Mogul | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...Cecil Rhodes is causing Sanders more trouble. Six ft. eight in. captain Tony Jenkins, half of Sanders's big man tandem up front, will be in the Midwest tonight trying to earn one of Mr. Rhodes's recently-become-controversial scholarships. Harvard managed to change the Brown game from Saturday to Sunday night so Jenkins can be around to guard the Bruins' stringbean leaper Phil Brown. The B.C. contest couldn't be rescheduled and the Eagles' sophomore star Bob Carrington should be able to skyrocket his 20-points-a-game average...

Author: By Ronald W. Wade, | Title: Wadin' In | 12/14/1973 | See Source »

...Edgar Williams, one of the British trustees, reportedly does not oppose awarding the scholarships to women. Williams needs only a gentle push, not a harsh shove. Harvard needs only challenge the Rhodes selection process, not act as Parliament, judge and Cecil Rhodes...

Author: By Steve Luxenberg, | Title: Rhodes Rhetoric | 12/6/1973 | See Source »

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