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...situation sets in quickly, and the turnover on the executive committee, the club's ruling body, is extremely high. Among those members who remain, too, are those who privately express doubt that the organization will ever be able to justify its existence by doing more than what one calls "diddley work"--stuffing envelopes, writing letters, lending the Harvard name to worthy causes. (And worthy causes, members point out, are at their weakest position in several years as ways of attracting either commitment or attention.) Only about one-third as many people filled out Civil Rights Coordinating Committee interest cards...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Young Dems Search for Something Significant to Say | 3/10/1966 | See Source »

...five-man English singing group will give a two-hour concert on May 6 to open this year's Freshman Jubilee Weekend. The long-haired "Animals" are well-known for such recordings as House of The Rising Sun, We Gotta Get Outta This Place and Bo Diddley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Will Invite Animals for Weekend | 3/2/1966 | See Source »

...lonesome, soul-sad music, full of cries and gospel wails, punctuated by a heavy, regular beat. With the migration to the industrial North after World War II, the beat was intensified with electric guitars, bass and drums, and the great blues merchants, like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker and Chuck Berry, made their first recordings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: The Sound of the Sixties | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

Ellen H. Hunsberger '68, instead of Frank Murray, will introduce and then "monkey" with Bo Diddley on Friday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hope | 4/24/1965 | See Source »

...member of the committee suggested that, as a consolation, Murray might be invited to do "the dog" with Mr. Diddley's companion, "The Duchess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hope | 4/24/1965 | See Source »

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