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Tommy's brags only a few choice machines, but many of the top area games people gather there to challenge the Alpine slopes or drive a bouncy little racer into oblivion. Mel, the Bookseller, the bearded gent who sits in the corner near the jukebox most afternoons, gives Tommy's five stars, mumbling something about space creatures in his office...

Author: By Paul M. Barre, | Title: Off-Campus Fun | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

While many connected to Commencement take deserved vacations beginning on or around June 11, one ventable Harvard employee takes a three day break specifically to enjoy the excitement John Shallow, the kindly and talkative gent who has checked bags at the exit of Lamont library for 12 years, says the Tuesday Phi Beta Kappa ceremony annually starts his "three-day program." Shallow plans to hit all the public events and get to each early for a wide range of seat selection. You get to see a lot of the students. I don't know them all, but you see them...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Another Perspective on Commencement | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...wife. Much show-biz Big Think ensues, but it is not quite stupid enough to be truly funny. Interestingly, there are several nice, quirky moments of domestic comedy involving the protagonist, his grandfather and his live-in lady in an innocent but funny menage a trois. The old gent is played by the great director King Vidor, who may have given a tip or two, since these scenes indicate that were Toback to rein in .his ambitions, he might have a gift for conscious, rather than unconscious, comedy of an interestingly eccentric kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Mar. 8, 1982 | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

Friends yesterday described Claflin as "a great guy" and "simple, straight forward." Current treasurer George Putnam `49 recalled him as a "marvelous old gent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Corporation Member Dies, Led Harvard Effort in WWII | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...verdict this week. His name is Rick Kuhn, and except for the eyes, he seems younger than 26. He sits at the defense table alone, but in the company of four other defendants, men with even older eyes and Damon Runyon-sounding names, including convicted extortionist Jimmy ("the Gent") Burke. The testimony has been a seamy accounting of gamblers, kids, bribes and beating Harvard by "less than twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: When Scandals Do Not Scandalize | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

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