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...himself the head of a huge 17-component group of Boston mutual funds, became treasurer in 1973--conspicuously, appointed by the same search committee he had chaired as a member of the Board of Overseers Putnam will step down on June 30 from his post, and the biggest feather he can put in his cap is the creation of the Management Company...
Without benefit of egg, he was born 50 years ago this week in a movie called The Wise Little Hen, and Donald Duck is still in fine feather. To celebrate the birthday, Walt Disney World near Orlando, Fla., has planned a summer-long salute to the irascible star, featuring 50, yes sir 50, real live ducks that will waddle along with Donald through the Magic Kingdom on at least three outings during the next month. Of course, it takes an odd duck to be fooled by a fellow in a funny suit. So the Disney folks painstakingly trained the Pekins...
...Sullivan Principles don't mean any thing in terms of moral behavior It's a publicity feather in their [the Corporation's] cap-nothing else," said Damson A Silvers 86, a member of the South African Solidarity Committee...
...shoppers at The Wandering Eye (1297 Cambridge St.). In the back of the store, behind the usual selection of old clothing and jewelry. The Wandering Eye has a costume rental department. For $15 to $25 a day, you can rent out a beaded dress, a ball gown, or a feather boa. And they aren't in demand just at Halloween, says owner Emily McAdoo: "I'm surprised at the evidence of really interesting parties that go on here all year round." She has outfitted groups going to a medieval wedding party and a "Vicars and Tarts" party, as well...
...thwarting of Helms's attack on the courts is hardly the only feather in Shattuck's hat In 1974, four years out of Yale Law School and working as a litigator for the ACLU. Shattuck represented Morton H. Halperin in his suit against the government at the height of the Watergate scandal. Halperin, an assistant to Henry A. Kissinger '50 when the latter was National Security advisor, was a victim of wiretapping illegally authorized by then-President Richard M. Nixon and Kissinger in the early days of Nixon's presidency. During the case, Shattuck obtained depositions from Nixon, Kissinger...