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...only permanent trace of one’s presence here a series of impressions on an IBM card. This spirit of live and let live extends through every aspect of undergraduate life. There are no big men on campus, only a host of little big men. The quest for fame reaches an early, flickering peak when 50 freshmen of whom no one but a few old-school friends have ever heard vie for the votes of an apathetic class to make the Union or Jubilee committees. An astonishingly large percentage of each class cannot tell you who the current football...
...hardly a new role for Harvard's Warburg Professor of Economics ... He has become an all-purpose critic in the U.S. and beyond, jousting with as many demons as a latter-day Vishnu, the many-armed Hindu god of a thousand names ... The foundations for Galbraith's current fame-or notoriety-were laid a decade ago with publication of [his book] The Affluent Society ... With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector-housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare-it established clear guideposts for both the New Frontier and the Great...
...discussion with Andy Warhol," he recalls, "and I said, 'As far as I'm concerned, more people watch the news than anything else. To me, news is pop art.' And Andy agreed." In the decades since, Gittoes, 56, has pushed that concept beyond the usual 15 minutes of fame...
...followed nearly identical paths from the Harvard Lampoon to Fox Studios and the upper echelons of Hollywood writer fame...
DIED. Robert Sterling, 88, hunky actor in low-profile 1940s MGM movies who shot to national fame as a ghost, below, with co-stars Anne Jeffreys, his off- and onscreen wife, and Leo G. Carroll, on the hugely popular 1950s TV sitcom Topper; in Brentwood, Calif. Sterling played George Kerby, who, with wife Marion, dies in a skiing accident, then returns to his former home where the spectral couple end up coaching new occupant Cosmo Topper--a cranky banker and the only person who can see the Kerbys--on how to enjoy life...