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The fruitless search for the holder of the lucky ticket had become a national obsession. Last week, nine days after the winning six numbers in Canada's interprovincial lottery were announced, the country's jackpot fever finally broke as Stuart Kelly, 57, and his wife Lillian, 54, stepped...
There is one type of "Harvard Man" who views his education as a substitution for, rather than an enhancement of personal growth. He spends his life racking up achievement after achievement, adding luster to a glossy self-confidence. A deeper and more textured awareness and concern for those around him...
Taube, who was born to a day laborer's family in Neudorf, Saskatchewan, and moved to the U.S. in 1937, celebrated his award at the regular hamburger and beer party he gives for his students (they provided champagne). With characteristic modesty, he insisted that there were "so many deserving...
Indeed, a glance at out Twentieth Anniversary report reveals the respected careers since followed by the principal perpetrators of our class: a brilliant medical researcher, not surprisingly several professors of English--and as for the most creative and irreverent participant, he has served with great distinction on the Harvard faculty...
Delightfully illustrated with pictures of artifacts from the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in Rochester, The Light of the Home illuminates the deadening burden that male supremacy imposed during the 19th century. Throughout Historian Harvey Green's lively text, advertisements, advice columns, how-to manuals and diaries kept by women...