Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul C. Cabot '21, former Treasurer of Harvard, was in his office one day nearly 25 years ago when an elderly, disheveled man wearing an old coat drenched from a rainstorm outside walked in and sat down. Placing his briefcase on the floor, the intruder reached in and drew out his wet, muddy galoshes, and proceeded to drop them on the fine office rug. Before Cabot could say anything, the man, Arthur D. Stillman, reached in his briefcase once more and handed Cabot over $1 million worth of securities...
...second album, "The White Sport Coat and the Pink Crustacean," is probably the pick of his litter. It has several of his best wry vignettes, and the rudest of the crude underground hits he'll be remembered by: I really do appreciate the fact you're sitting here Your voice sounds so wonderful But your face don't look so clear. So bar maid bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw...
...easy is it to fall for somebody when you don't truly know what they stand for? A singer whose music you have never heard? The alluring glimpse of the pale square frame photograph of the girl with the switchblade thin elbows sticking out of a white shirt? Coat slung over her shoulder? Pale translucent cheekbones? Suspenders, providing that hint of a man's outfit? That casual elegance of the working man with sleeves rolled up--a takeoff on the cover of an early Frank Sinatra album? Coal black hair? The picture is all still, the energy curiously becalmed...
...bearded man enters the computer room from the back door, his coat on and books in hand. He walks to the blackboard and begins to write. Hearing the scraping chalk, every head turns to see him writing: "sys problems tonite call...
This is taxicab territory; unlike other parts of Boston, there was no mass exit at 12:30. The people here had enough money to pay a five dollar cover charge (two drinks included,) fifty cents for a mandatory coat check, $1.75 for additional drinks and eighty-five cents for a pack of cigarettes--cab fares are no problem. Within minutes, everyone is packed in mud-splattered yellow vehicles and wending homewards...