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...dues go to support such House functions as the traditional Halloween dance, the annual Christmas barf, and the lavish spring fete, all of which have previously been funded by House money, which is at the House master's discretion. But House Committee members said Alan E. Heimert'49. master of Eliot House, had announced this year that the funds available in him would not cover dusts...

Author: By Lavea Brachman, | Title: Residents Have Mixed Reactions To New House Dues at Eliot | 10/23/1982 | See Source »

...Friday the 20th, from 4:30 to 6, Grolier will fete John Domini, whose novel Bedlam has just come out from Fiction International. Bedlam's genre is definitely a rarity for Grolier, says the bookstore's owner. Louisa Solano: "Domini and Monroe Engel are the only two novelists I allow in the store...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Filmic Philosophy and New Gamesman | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

...weeping wife. His jubilant supporters hustled him out of the courtroom and into a cheering throng of well-wishers, many of whom raised their arms in clenched-fist salutes. From upper-story windows of the courthouse, white civil servants gazed stunned and stony-faced at the impromptu fete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE: Ironic Justice | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...planning to return to New York for her father's wedding. He is marrying a woman she dislikes intensely--for absolutely no logical reason. It's a plot we've seen before, as we watch the two sides of the family acquainting themselves at the obligatory pre-wedding fete in a restaurant. We sit through another child's lament about a perfectly reasonable second marriage. The situation does not in the least seems traumatic, but Clayburgh plays the extreme neurotic, raging about how she doesn't want to go to the wedding, and ripping clothes on and off in front...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: The Vulnerable Career Woman | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...year-old Morgan. "I'm in good shape," reports Landon, who carried the G.O.P. banner during the ill-fated campaign against F.D.R. in 1936, "though I can't get in and out of the saddle without help." Colonel Harland Sanders, 90, whose birthday fete took place at his old Kentucky home town of Louisville, prefers to do most of his traveling by air. Though he will not cover the 250,000 miles he managed last year, he still makes a bucketful of appearances touting his famous fried chicken for Heublein, Inc. The colonel's secret recipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 22, 1980 | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

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