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...concert hall will close for extensive acoustic renovations, to reopen in the fall. As for the opera, it plans to move out of the Kennedy Center entirely. Thanks to an $18 million gift from Mrs. Eugene B. Casey, chairman of the board, the company has acquired the old Woodward & Lothrop department store in downtown Washington. After some political wrangling, including a videotaped deposition from Domingo, the city approved a zoning variance so that the store could be converted into an opera house. Scheduled to open in 2001, it will cost more than $100 million. "I hope that our opera house...
...first human kidney transplant was performed at Harvard, and the goldfish swallowing craze of the 1940s was started by a Harvard student, Lothrop Withington...
...time of his death, Bundy was a resident of Manchester-by-the-Sea, a north Boston suburb. He married Mary Buckminster Lothrop, associate dean of admissions at Radcliffe...
...Space & Back (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard; $14.95), a children's book co- written by Sally Ride last year and published this month, the nation's first woman astronaut tells her readers that all adventures are "scary." After last January's explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, Ride seemed to find the prospect of another shuttle assignment a bit too scary. A member of the commission that investigated the disaster, Ride declared in March that the shuttle was unsafe and that she would not board it again. Currently riding a desk at NASA, she said last week that she was ready...
Besides, Harvard is not all a matter of social problems and cosmic issues. Some Harvard graduates with very long memories still recall the day when Lothrop Withington Jr., '42, swallowed a goldfish to win a $10 bet and set off a national fad that is better forgotten. Others will always remember the day in 1968 when mighty Yale was leading by 29-13 with only 42 seconds remaining in the Game, and then all kinds of incredible things began happening. The Crimson headline next day: HARVARD WINS, 29-29. Others remember less epic events: sculling on the Charles, drinking...