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...first U.S. Army Air Force pilots to get airborne immediately after the Japanese launched their attack on Pearl Harbor; in Tucson, Ariz. Taylor, then 21, was on his first assignment at Hawaii's Wheeler Field, and had spent the previous night in black tie at an officers' club fete. Hearing machine-gun fire, he grabbed Welch--and his tuxedo pants--and drove to their planes. Under fire, he and Welch shot down six enemy planes. "I wasn't in the least bit terrified," he later said. "I was too young and too stupid to realize that...
...poster read “Save a Horse, Ride an Owl Boy.” A Crimson editorial board sophomore dressed in ever-popular Peter Pan garb poked a fellow Ed boarder in the eye while brandishing a plastic sword at the Crimson’s somber Halloween fete. He followed that triumph by yelling at sex blogger Lena Chen “Do you know who I am?” and also “I read your blog.” Bet she’s never gotten that pick-up line before. Some Quincy seniors dressed...
...Nearly everyone at the event knew that the real reason for the fete was not to honor Stone's award from his hometown film festival, but to help launch Paramount's bid to snag Oscar nominations for his recent 9/11 movie World Trade Center. And to launch Hollywood's annual effort to get around Academy rules that try to limit the increasingly aggressive studio campaigns for Oscars...
...Whatever floats your boat—FM doesn’t judge. Scheduled panelist Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ’38, whose book “Cycles of American History” was read (or not read) by high schoolers across the nation, was notably missing from the fete. When asked for her opinion on the Pulitzer Prize winner’s absence, Ashley A.T. Tongret ’00 was unperturbed: “I was just disappointed that Conan O’Brien ’85 wasn’t here...
...Scene” are of a different breed, entirely. They’re like young Cary Grants—they don’t understand the concept of a “women’s center,” but they love to “fete on” attractive Harvard women by cooking them gnocchi. They even attend the Westminster Dog Show and wear “dangerous” ties. How cool is that?The women of “Scene,” although underrepresented in written verbiage, are equally incredible. They only...