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...students. Instead, the police went so far as to deny one woman graduate student a ride after dark because, according to chief of Harvard's police, Paul E. Johnson, she was "abusing" the service. Her offense had been to take rides with the escort service six times from Larson Hall to Peabody Terrace after her Wednesday evening class. This denial of protection is an abdication of the police responsibility to protect students, and it must be condemned...
...careers of Alyn and Noel Neill, who played a perky Lois Lane in both the serial and TV show). When ; he did get a minor part in From Here to Eternity, the preview audience guffawed. "Every time he appeared, they yelled again and again," says one witness, Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen in the TV series. The producers cut Reeves' part to almost nothing. Reeves dutifully went on playing Superman, but when filming for the seventh season was about to begin, he shot himself...
When Fantine dies, Valjean comes to the aid of her daughter, Cosette. He finds that the Thenardiers, the couple who take care of the young Cosette (Christa Larson), are nothing but thieving, conniving pub owners who have worked the child like a slave while charging her mother large sums of money. Thenardier (Tom Robbins) and his wife (Victoria Clark) are the show's clowns, and the audience revels in their provincial language and drunken vulgarity...
...black community. "He was a role model," said Congressman Charles Hayes, a Washington crony who represents the South Side district that sent the mayor to the House from 1981 to 1983. "I never believed Harold could open up a city and turn it around as he did." Roy Larson, editor of the monthly Chicago Reporter, called Washington's death a "loss in the family in the way Jack Kennedy...
Wyoming, meanwhile, remained the country's last holdout against raising the drinking age when the legislature refused for the third time to increase the minimum from 19 to 21. Wyoming will forfeit more than $11 million in federal highway funds over the next year. But, explains Wyoming Historian T.S. Larson, "it is a tradition that we are a hard-drinking lot, and we don't like people to interfere with that...