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Sudduth, a one-time Harvard star now a computer programmer at his alma mater, was timed in 19 minutes, 2.82 seconds on a winding, wind-whipped three-mile course on the Charles River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Sudduth Stars in Head of the Charles Regatta | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...returned to the U.S. and remarried. (Sontag uses her stepfather's last name.) In time, the new family ended up living in Canoga Park, near Los Angeles, though it would be truer to say that Sontag lived in books. The most ardent reader at North Hollywood High School, alma mater of Alan Ladd and Farley Granger, she graduated at 15 and made for the University of Chicago. (She would later do graduate work at Harvard and Oxford.) At 17 she married sociologist Philip Rieff, then a 28-year-old instructor, just ten days after she met him. The marriage, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUSAN SONTAG: Stand Aside, Sisyphus | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...other--Centenary College in Shreveport, La.--was known as the alma mater of Celtic star Robert Parish. Despite a 21-0 regular season mark, the Gentlemen never received mention in the national rankings...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Walking Those Shues Blues | 10/18/1988 | See Source »

...shirt to school. Why should they tell me not to show my belly button?" Good thing she is a little too young to meet Brendan McReady at a mixer. McReady, a junior at Bethesda- Chevy Chase High School, has some sentimental regard for the school uniforms at an alma mater: "Everyone wore the same thing every day, so perhaps it was easier. You'd get up, throw on the clothes, and you looked slimy all day. But who cared? It was all boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: What The Kids Are Wearing | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...also gives generously to a number of charities. Last year, for example, she laid out $750,000 to fund ten scholarships at Tennessee State University in Nashville, her alma mater, then followed up with letters to each recipient, challenging a couple of them to get better grades. "My mission is to use this position, power and money to create opportunities for other people," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oprah Winfrey: Lady with a Calling | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

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