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...Died. Harlow Herbert Curtice, 69, president of General Motors Corp. in 1955 when it produced 3,989,987 cars, more than any other automaker before or since; of a heart attack; in Flint, Mich. (see U.S. BUSINESS...
Then the 21-year-old son of the Episcopalian Bishop of Syracuse, Chub Peabody was described by Dick Harlow as "the finest guard I've ever seen" in his lengthy career as football coach at Harvard...
Although usually mild and somewhat serious, Peabody toughened considerably on the gridiron. Writing in the Alumni Bulletin, Harlow said...
...freshman," Harlow wrote, "Peabody was not strong and he was awkward. By following faithfully the exercises we gave him he added two inches to his neck in a single summer and had to throw away all his shirts... By the end of his career, Peabody was practically indestructable and played fifty minutes of the Yale game with a charley-horse severe enough to keep most football players in bed." Peabody had also raised his weight from 165 to 195 pounds...
...days when Marilyn Monroe was just breaking into motion pictures, well before most people had ever seen her fully clothed, Silver Screen and the other fan magazines had already trumpeted her as the "new Jean Harlow" and the "most perfectly proportioned body in Hollywood." Today, a similar but more cultivated promotion campaign in the Sunday supplements and the New Yorker is massing public respect for Luchino Visconti...