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...brakeman father left their Battle Creek, Mich., home when she was two, and killed himself 14 years later, leaving $100 each to Betty and her elder sister Marion. "Betty was jealous of her sister right from the start," Mrs. Thornburg told TIME in 1950. "She was always in my lap, always after affection. She would stand on her head, do cartwheels, yell or do anything to attract attention away from her quieter sister." Marion would become a band singer of moderate repute under the name Marion Hutton. She never achieved her sister's volcanic success. Yet it was Betty whose...
After its first lap, globalization gets really interesting. The stuff you invented--in this culinary case, fast-food hamburgers, fried chicken, pizza and doughnuts--gets sent out into the world, is replicated by other countries and then comes back to you all crazied up, like a giant game of telephone. And if you hold that piece of Filipino fried chicken up to your ear and are really quiet, you can hear what the rest of the world thinks about...
...shots in house courtyards that you hooked up with one of your future roommates. Whether this occurred across the sexes or between them, it made for a really gay (3) night, but now you have an excuse to never speak to them again. Bonus! In deference to our Bell Lap forebears, we admit to the sad truth that residential life at Harvard sucks. There are many ways to cope with this, but most people just overcompensate. The two most popular options are getting blackout and trying to hook up with busted girls and butter-bodies (see Bell Lap...
...Glue his laptop to his lap...
...introvert,” was solicited for the show by recruiters while flyering on campus last fall. “I never thought I would be on a reality TV show, never wanted to,” says Dern. “It just sort of fell into my lap, really.”Dern has an endearing sense of humor, but he fully recognizes how much his popularity was contingent on the production of the show.“They portrayed me very favorably,” he says. “On these shows, they want to have...