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...first Harvard chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi--which would become the A.D. Club--was founded in 1837 as a literary society by members of Harvardiana, a defunct publication, says Price...
...photograph is reassuring. Barrett is not exactly a veteran of San Juan Hill. But he has been around politics long enough to know that punditry and polls are no substitute for old-fashioned reporting. A native New Yorker who began as a city hall reporter for the now defunct Herald Tribune, Barrett covered the Johnson Administration before joining TIME as a writer in 1965. After a stint as an editor, Barrett covered the White House during the Carter and Reagan years. He drew on his work for a 1983 book, Gambling with History, that described the dawn of the Reagan...
...contrast, The Quick, a recently defunct campus band, attempted to capitalize on undergraduate music tastes by playing only established hits. The group was founded this fall by members of Men of Clay, because a number of popular dance groups had recently disbanded, and many student organizations were looking for new bands to play cover tunes at their functions...
...addition, the funding of Robertson's early political efforts is being investigated by the IRS. Michael McManus, a syndicated columnist specializing in religious issues, has documented $8.4 million that went from Robertson's tax-exempt Christian Broadcasting Network to now defunct "educational" groups like the Freedom Council, which allegedly paid for much of the TV preacher's initial political organizing. The Robertson campaign has not disputed McManus' figures, which were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. But Communications Director Constance Snapp says, "All monies given to the Freedom Council by CBN were perfectly legitimate from both a legal...
...Brown students were arrested in March, 1986 by Providence police investigating an ad placed in the now-defunct Providence Eagle. In the ad, Kidd and Dana E. Smith, both of whom graduated in June of that year, offered a sexual threesome to any businessman willing...