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...Pearson helped launch Andover Theological Seminary, which soon turned town and gown into what Student Oliver Wendell Holmes (1825) called "the very dove's nest of Puritan faith." Great preachers flocked there; on Andover Hill was written My Country 'Tis of Thee. Shunning Unitarian Harvard, the school became such a solid Yale "feeder" that in the 1920s Andover men comprised 10% of many a Yale class...
...Barbie doll (which now has a boy friend named Ken) is priced at $3 retail and has become, according to Ruth Handler, "the greatest phenomenon that ever hit the toy business.'' Mattel also offers separately a Barbie wardrobe ranging from lingerie up to a $5 wedding gown...
...wife, Wang Kuang-mei, is also his fourth. The first was killed during China's civil war, the other two were divorced. Some 25 years his junior (Liu is in his early 60s), she is dark. trim, and, judging by her appearance in a gown of opulent velvet, clothes-conscious...
...Harrimans. At the most exclusive dinner of all -in the White House family dining room -were the President and Jackie Kennedy; 78-year-old Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth (as Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, her fondness for a certain shade of blue inspired In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown, a song far more enduring than any in Mr. President); Colombian Ambassador Carlos Sanz de Santamaria and his wife; and Artist William Walton...
...unkind years have merely honed the battle-ax wit of England's oddball poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, who, upon turning 75, looked ahead to her official birthday celebration at London's Festival Hall next month. There, she insists, she will appear baroquely bedecked in a red velvet gown, black-and-gold turban and massive gold necklace. She then manned the ramparts to defend her medieval eccentricities. "I think it is a mistake to dress like a mouse," she said. "Except when it comes to bravery, we are a nation of mice. We dress and behave with timid circumspection...