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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Davis Bates, 23, is in his last term at experimental Hampshire College in Massachusetts, majoring in "political theater and mime." So when his work in the college kitchen began to get boring, he turned to the salads to provide drama.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Salad Days | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Nelson Morgan Davis, 72, eccentric Canadian businessman; of drowning; in Phoenix. A native Ohioan who moved to Toronto in 1929, Davis amassed a fortune estimated at $100 million with a string of manufacturing and transport companies. He once paid $10,000 to have a meteorite that landed near Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 26, 1979 | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

Edward J. Davis '82, assigned to Quincy, his first choice, said he hoped to be as lucky in the real lottery.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Receive House Assignments | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

Tillie never questioned the validity of her experience or her ability. It was her vision which allowed her to work on her writing even when she was not putting pen to paper. In a biographical sketch of Rebecca Harding Davis. Tillie explains the state of mind that remains when a...

Author: By Julius Sviokla, | Title: The Survival of Tillie Olsen | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

Hancock responded to his critics by bringing together the V.S.O.P. Quintet, basically a reformation of a ground-breaking Miles Davis group minus Miles, at the 1976 Newport Jazz Festival. The Quintet played the kind of dense, improvisational music that Miles had been experimenting with in the late '60s, and their...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Two Shades of Piano | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

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