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They have come to watch a duel. The participants: challenger Maria ("Masha") Magdalena Markof-Belaeff [origine russe], who undoes her red cravate before the action commences; and instigator Mark Van Dyke Holmes, sporting sneakers, vest, and blazer in Eleanor (Roosevelt) blue...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: The Dawn Duel: Blueberries At Ten Paces | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

...Class Day Speaker Jerry van Dyke urges graduating members of the Class of '79 "do whatever you want to do as long you don't lose your sense of humor." Van Dyke--a last-minute stand-in for Leon Spinks, who misses the ceremony because of what his manager calls "transportational and chemical difficulties"--tells the Class the "I'm so hungry, I haven't had a bite in weeks." He is rushed to Stillman Infirmary after being bitten by Dean Rosovsky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Problems Here | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...performers are as durable or as justly adored as Mary Tyler Moore. During the past 15 years she has become an unpretentious symbol of sophistication in a medium where that quality is usually considered a punishable offense. As Laura Petrie, the slightly daft heroine of the classic Dick Van Dyke Show, Moore demonstrated that sitcom suburban housewives did not have to be domestic ninnies chained to a kitchen sink. With her easy wit and sturdy intelligence, almost single-handed she brought TV out of the Lucille Ball-Donna Reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Once in Love with Mary | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...Dyke and Damman defend their committee against skeptics who might point out that there are relatively few Harvard students on the CEC, most of whom do not plan to devote their lives to community organizing. How sincere, then, are the CEC members? What effect do they ultimately have upon the social and economic injustices they are investigating...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Helping Workers Get Organized | 10/4/1978 | See Source »

...Dyke has an answer. "It would be unrealistic to assume we can change everything," she says. "But we do good. We're the drop in the bucket, but what we do is important...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Helping Workers Get Organized | 10/4/1978 | See Source »

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