Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graceful nymphs," cooed a leotarded physical culture-vulture named Anne Marie Bennstrom. The "nymphs" who heaved into action at her command were a score of Hollywood refugees, ranging from Novelist and sometime Scriptwriter Aldous Huxley (6 ft. 4 in., 143½ Ibs.), who looked like a long, gaunt crane, to 341-lb., 6 ft. 2½ in. Actor Victor Buono, who looked like a healthy hippo. As they puffed around the swimming pool to the recorded strains of the River Kwai March or splashed through the 'Balinese Water Dance" to the tune of the Volga Boatman, they were...
...inaugural address, Crane acknowledged he had been Mayor a previous term (1950-51) and said he knew the "headaches, the plusses and the minuses that go with this responsibility, but I accept them." "I have big hopes for the City of Cambridge," the new Mayor added...
...Crane is an attorney and a member of the Board of Directors of the Harvard Trust Company; he is the father of six children...
...vice-Mayor's election, the C.C.A. bloc of Crane, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, and Wheeler had support from McNamara. Had Mrs. Wise not bolted, Mrs. Wheeler would presumably have been elected...
...initial second ballot, Crane and Vellucci recorded for Mrs. Wise, when she failed to vote for herself. The switch by DeGuglielmo and Mrs. Wheeler was apparently a cue to have Mrs. Wise switch to herself, thus having the needed five votes. When she failed to do this, the other three CCA Councillors switched back to Mrs. Wheeler...