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Hello, Ethel. Most patrons of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital Gift Shop do a double take when the auburn-haired saleslady hands them their change. Pressed, she admits, "Yes, I'm Ethel Merman." Keeping her Klaxon mute, Ethel does not even hum as she bustles about the shop, straightening rows of candy bars and selling cookies. But, say admiring fellow workers, "she's definitely improved sales." Enlisting as a volunteer when her mother was hospitalized at Roosevelt eleven months ago, Ethel was first a patients' escort, then joined the gift shop. Now she comes in at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 24, 1974 | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

Pope was at Harvard from 1906-1949, and during that time taught Fine Arts 1A, one of those fabled Hum 3-type courses that 25th reunioners always grow nostalgic over. Nathan Pusey '28 took it, and one of his papers is on display...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: Drop Your Greens and Blues | 5/10/1974 | See Source »

...total concert experience is here. The footage covers 15 songs from various Stones concerts. The deft camera work insinuates the film audience into the midst of the group, giving a sense of privileged, almost private participation. The sound track, reproduced quadraphonically, makes the floor hum and the seats vibrate, and the songs come out in bounteous cascades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Grand Tour | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...other events, especially the jumping and vaulting contests, the Crimson should be in for some ho-hum victories. Aside from Northeastern and possibly Boston College, few of the other area teams offer much competition for the Harvard trackmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads to Kick Off GBCs at B. C. | 4/25/1974 | See Source »

...stake tonight for Harvard than there usually is when the two teams meet at the end of the season. For the past decade or so the Harvard-Yale hockey game has had about as much significance as a mid-season battle between the Bruins and the Golden Seals. Ho hum. The mere rivalry between the two schools alone used to be enough to have the game scheduled in that mecca of schoolboy hockey, the Boston Arena. But even that has begun to fizzle, and last year the game was rescheduled for the cozy confines of Watson Rink...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 3/2/1974 | See Source »

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