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Perhaps the most dramatic revolution in the way people live was wrought by technology. In 1923 private telephones were still largely playthings of the rich. Many rural areas had no electricity. The automobile was beginning to appear in large quantities. Radio's early enthusiasts tinkered with crystal sets in their living rooms just as today's home-computer buffs hunch over their machines...
Thayer's Jon M. Crystal '87 disagreed. "It was getting kind of hard to study," he said yesterday...
...hums with farm machinery and insects. Inside, the house smells, the way old houses tend to, moist and rich, as if someone had enclosed a creek bottom. Late summer motes settle gently on the esoteric acquisitions of the once famous George Ade. Here a Grecian urn, there a Waterford crystal punch bowl that, when flicked crisply with a fingernail, keeps ringing clearly long after the flicker has left the room...
...with the first editions of almost anything, the opening installments of NewsHour were ragged. Admitted Executive Producer Lester Crystal, a former president of NBC News, "There is a great deal of smoothing out to be done." Among the snags: "mini-documentaries" on organ transplants and on the decline of a Kansas City stockyard seemed more like unedited slices of life than stories with news pegs, and "video postcards" of nature scenes and Americana reinforced the show's occasional aura of untimeliness...
...BORN. To Crystal Gayle, 32, sultry, velvet-voiced country-pop singer (Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue), and Vassilios ("Bill") Gatzimos, 31, her manager: their first child, a daughter; in Nashville. Name: Catherine Claire. Weight...