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After Clem called for the Tuesday meeting, Graham read a letter dated May 21 she obtained from K. Dun Gifford '60, vice president for urban affairs of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes, a Cambridge developing firm, to Harvard officials outlining steps Harvard could take to formulate a feasible split-site proposal...
...NATURE, Fred Exley is a fan. His first book. A Fan's Notes, is a portrait of his life as an outsider and a wanderer whose only solace comes from cheering on his personal hero. The Fiff (Frank Gifford of the N.Y. Giants), every Sunday afternoon. His fate is to "sit in the stands with most men and exalt the exploits of others...
...youthful fantasies of athletic and literary glory ripened into alcoholism, two ruined marriages, three stints in state mental institutions. For winters on end, he remembered, all that kept him lurching from Sunday to Sunday was an obsession with pro football and the exploits of New York Giant Halfback Frank Gifford, a classmate at the University of Southern California. To Exley, 45, Gifford's triumphant career provided weekly proof of his own status as an All-America flop...
...literary generation. What was more, there was a tenuous connection between the two men. Wilson's final years had been spent restoring his ancestral stone house in Talcottville, not far from Exley's native Watertown, N.Y. Exley had never met Wilson, but then he had barely met Gifford. His mission was clear: sober up and pay tribute to the better...
...grinding the community axe for so long that its blades are all but worn away. Harvard Square Task Force head Oliver Brooks has been a thorn in Harvard's side ever since he pushed for community input when building Harvard's low-cost housing projects of the '60s. Pebble Gifford was instrumental in compiling the Harvard Square Comprehensive Policy Plan that Harvard routinely dismissed as inaccurate and unhelpful. Brett Donham '60 is a long-time critic of Harvard's housing policy and James Herold '66 represents the Agassiz Neighborhood Planning Group that criticized Harvard last year for giving too little...