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After three years of just liberated talk to feed on, it seems only logical that Harvard should be desperate for the old, the familiar separations, a richly laid out sexual battleground. And sure enough, last spring in Dunster House the Boys got together for a bachelor fling and acted out this nostalgic retreat--a bunch of stags, drinking it up, chumming it up over dirty stories, studding the egos up with dirty displays, and even making a contest out of it, cross-legged in a large circle so that everyone could hear, on and on until the sordid details were...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

Katy's emotional world does not mend appreciably when her son brings home from Harvard an actress with whom he has been sleeping. This free and sexy spirit promptly propositions Jeff, and in his menopausal dither he runs off with her. It is a very short fling. After 25 platonic minutes he is back home, ready for a reconciliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Happy Though Anxious | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

...last fling before adulthood closed in? The jobs Fuller held in early manhood might lead one to think so: machine fitter in a cotton mill. Navy ensign during World War I, managing exports for a meat packer and sales for a truck company. The presidency of the Stockade Building System (1922-27) sounds more like it. Fuller and his father-in-law copatented a tough, light substitute for bricks that eliminated the need for hod carriers and mortars. Holes in the blocks were lined up and cement poured in. Both the brick industry and the unions ganged up against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Whole Universe Catalogue | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

Derek Sanderson, the Boston Bruins' flamboyant center who made $1 million in a brief fling in the new World Hockey Association, formally returned yesterday to the National Hockey League's defending but slumping Champions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANDERSON BACK | 2/8/1973 | See Source »

Died. Roy Ruggles Johnson, 89, former newsman and radio broadcaster whose 1913 scoop for the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram exposed Jim Thorpe's minor fling in professional baseball, causing the athlete to lose his two 1912 Olympic gold medals; in Worcester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 22, 1973 | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

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