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Members of Quincy House yesterday honored the late Mrs. Mary Fitzgerald, a dining hall checker who was killed by an automobile in December, by presenting the House with a silver coffee service inscribed with her name. In making the presentation Samuel Abbott '63 praised Mrs. Fitzgerald for her cheerfulness, kindness and interest in undergraduates. He said that her services to the House were a "lesson in the quickening power of kindness in any situation...
Poor France-it is blessed with three immense schools of popular songwriters. There is the rock-twist crowd, which follows the spiritual guidance of Elvis Presley. Chubby Checker and a Gallic hero named Johnny Hallyday. and spawns an army of combos with names like Les Chats Sauvages. There are "The Defenders of French Music." troubadour-poets like Georges Brassens and Leo Ferre who sing their verses to naughty café melodies. And there is Charles Aznavour...
...Mary G. Fitzgerald, a checker in the Quincy House dining hall, died yesterday of injuries received in an automobile accident. Mrs. Fitzgerald was struck by a car on her way to work yesterday morning and died in Cambridge City Hospital about...
...night to the introduction of piped-in music at dinner. The trial program of music, approved by the House committee, consisted of an album entitled "50 Great Moments in Music," and included excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Symphony #6, Sibelius' Finlandia, Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, Offenbach's Parisienne, and Chubby Checker's Let's Twist Again...
...program in which thousands of courts were built in parks and school-yards across the country. Weeds grew in the sandlots until the basepaths and pitcher's mounds were indistinguishable, until the "pock ... pock ... pock ... splat ... Gee I think your shot just missed by an inch, Bobby" replaced Chubby Checker singing The Theme From Mother Courage as our national sound...