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While Jewish students felt comfortable atHarvard before Hillel's founding, "they did notflaunt Judaism on campus, because of this Harvardman image," Frost says...
...pizazz. This is largely the doing of its celebrated executive editor, Ben Bradlee, aggressive, abrasive, amusing -the very model of Jason Robards in All the President's Men. With Watergate to his credit, he glories in playing what he describes as journalistic "hardball." He is a Harvardman who talks constantly in street profanity...
...Harvardman (in drag) on her left, a Harvardman (in drag) on her right, and a ride through Cambridge in a yellow Rolls-Royce. What more could a girl want? Whether she wanted it or not, Actress Candice Bergen (Oliver's Story) got a special perfume named "Eau de Billy Joe," a gold bean pot and an award as Woman of the Year, bestowed by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Bergen, who was kicked out of the University of Pennsylvania, told the crowd: "Today, as I proudly cradle this pot, I can look back on several visits...
MacDougall was recruited by a fellow Harvardman, Washington Campaign Consultant John Deardourff. With his partner Douglas Bailey, Deardourff is co-chairman of Campaign '76, the advertising arm of the President Ford Committee. The three men, closeted in a Kansas City hotel during the Republican Convention, drafted a thick tome they called simply The Plan. Its broad strategic aim: to focus attention on Ford's openness and his healing effect on the country, rather than on details of his positions on the issues...
Like Stegner, DeVoto was a Harvardman who left the West as soon as he decently could. He joined the faculty at Breadloaf Writers' Conference, beginning in 1932. He was briefly editor of the Saturday Review, and for two decades the occupant of the Harper's magazine column called "The Easy Chair." He lectured at Harvard and lived in a gabled house in Cambridge, Mass., that featured an enormous paneled library behind sliding doors. There, in his later years, he and his wife Avis, a student during his young teaching days at Northwestern, entertained the John Kenneth Galbraiths...