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Upon presenting our Harvard IDs, which now display our birthdates, many seniors were informed by The Links Club management that this card did not constitute proper identification. When our class marshals were appealed to for intervention on our behalf, we were told by Radcliffe Marshal Frances Alice Peale, "You should have known that a Harvard ID card cannot be used outside the University. You always have to show a driver's license at a bar." Frances, as our elected representative, did not at first try to negotiate with The Links Club administration. Instead, she chastised us for our "misguided" assumption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Marshals? | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

...just psyched," said Richard B.Cooperstein '88, a senior class marshal. "We spenta lot of time deliberating on this. We wantedsomeone unique, unusual, and who had a message forthe class...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Tom Wolfe to Give Class Day Speech | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

...Class Marshal Tab T. Stewart '88 says, "It's purely a social situation." He says his club is a place to watch television or study and sponsors few community activities each year, such as painting houses...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Knocking on the Final Clubs' Closed Doors | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...loony malapropisms of Producer Samuel Goldwyn, such as "Include me out" and "I read part of it all the way through." But how many remember when Goldwyn and his competitor Jack Warner co-produced the following wonderful gaffe? At a postwar banquet for Britain's war hero Field Marshal Montgomery, Goldwyn rose and proposed a toast to "Marshall Field Montgomery." After a stunned silence, Warner corrected him, "Montgomery Ward, you mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tall Tales from Tinseltown | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...that neither side will withdraw from the ABM treaty to deploy a space-based antimissile system for at least ten years. Dealing with that impasse was the job of the working group that was set up on Tuesday under Paul Nitze, the President's chief arms-control adviser, and Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the Soviet armed forces chief of staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spirit Of Washington | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

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