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...George Papalimberis, a Greek immigrant and owner of the Custom Barber Shop on Brattle Street, a mecca for area professors and politicians, says he has never pulled a customer's tooth...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Clipping Hair in Harvard Square | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

...long, narrow--just six feet wide--Custom Shop sports four bright red chairs and a cozy waiting room in the back. It seems like the typical strictly male barber shop at first glance. But among the last six issues of Sports illustrated on a table in the waiting room are a few issues of Cosmopolitan and Vogue...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Clipping Hair in Harvard Square | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

...fact, quite a few women visit the Custom Shop, says Bill Hattis, an employee at the shop. Hattis has a Henderson license, which is different from a barber's license in that it allows him to cut women's hair. "I do women's hair. I do crew cuts--I do everything," says Bill...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Clipping Hair in Harvard Square | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

...looked like a scene from The King and I, in which a proper English governess frantically coaches Oriental courtiers in the rudiments of Occidental custom. All week, for five hours a day, 140 uniformed Chinese waiters and waitresses marched in stiff single file through an empty hotel banquet hall, placed plates on cloth-covered tables and then returned to remove them. The drills were but one of many painstaking preparations for the "reciprocal banquet" President Reagan hosted in Peking last Saturday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey with All Trimmings | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Perry said that Texas would "custom negotiate with each professor recruited" to determine the balance of money to be spent on salary, research, aides, travel and other expenses...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Harvard Professors Are Unsure Of Effect of Texas's 32 Chairs | 4/18/1984 | See Source »

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