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This was still the time of the gentleman's C at Harvard among certain of the prep school graduates and the "clubbies," who treated "greasy grinds" who got A's with contempt and looked upon Radcliffe women as "bluestockings" to be avoided at all costs. Some of us, too, were rather hierarchical and snobbish in our judgment of our classmates. Concentrators in the sciences were thought to be rather "wet," and taking a laboratory course was something to be avoided, because it meant long hours of work in the late afternoon and a freezing walk back home...
...against her. The firm, whose most prominent partner is former Attorney General Griffin Bell and whose client list is topped by Coca Cola, appears to be an almost retrograde archetype of the white, male-dominated, large urban law office. It is described by anonymous former associates as a "Southern gentleman's club," and last year it reportedly suggested that its female summer associates enter an office wet-T-shirt contest (bathing suits were eventually substituted). The firm has no black partners and did not name its first Jewish partner until 1976 or its first female partner until 1980, after...
...spending several weeks in the Sahara also proved to have its fringe benefits--Herzberg received two marriage proposals. After helping remove Herzberg's jeep from a ravine, one gentleman wanted Herzberg to repay the favor by marrying his sister...
...next half decade such pages appeared only three or four times a year. They were time-consuming and expensive to produce and were confined mainly to such decorative and non-deadline subjects as art and travel. Their quality, by today's standards, would be graded with a gentleman's C at best...
DIED. William Powell, 91, suave actor whose resonant voice and easygoing elegance made him the movies' pre-eminent American gentleman; in Palm Springs, Calif. His silky good looks and pencil-thin mustache first got him typed as a villain in silent films, but when sound arrived, Powell became an expert at sophisticated comedy, appearing in such films as My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld (both 1936) and most unforgettably the six Thin Man movies (1934-47), in which he and Co-Star Myrna Loy were Nick and Nora Charles, the models for dozens of witty Hollywood sleuths to follow...