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...again it's Harvard in the news, it's Harvard taking a positive stand. Time and again it's Harvard professors on the block, on the Pulitzer Prize list, on the witness stand. But the reputation is still solid, the trustees still support it, and they're still turning 'em away every year...
...textile mill town. Its Yankees have long since been joined by thousands of Irish, Portuguese, Greeks and Italians. It is old, shabby, resigned, and tolerant of both vulgarity and venality in politics as long as they are kept within reasonable bounds. When a glib, promise-'em-everything, ex-cotton salesman named Edward Peirce (pronounced purse) was elected mayor 20 months ago, New Bedford was undisturbed-even though it was fairly obvious that he expected to "get his take" from the local gamblers...
...twelve days of production on Sangaree, a costume epic starring Fernando Lamas, and the whole thing was shot again in 3-D, with Technicolor. "Whaddya mean they won't wear glasses?" demanded Producer Bill Thomas. "They'll wear toilet seats around their necks if you give 'em what they want...
...master's and a doctorate, however, was never a handicap. Students flocked to his classes, crowded into his office in the afternoon, swarmed into his cluttered living room at night. There, with his wife ("Grandma") and daughter (Helena Ayesha Theodora), Monkey Wrench would entertain for hours. "Treat 'em like grownups," he would say of his students. "But remember, they're nothing but kids. You've got to be as young as they...
Yale has "a real powerhouse," according to Crimson Coach Bruce Munro, with four--count em--equal midfields of superior talent...