Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to tell you one last thing. Remember the joke about the four freshmen from Thayer getting run over by a moped? Remember that funny "phoney fable" about the four athletes from Eliot House drowning in a big vat of Polynesian Meatless Balls? Ever hear of Milton Berle? Yep, I stole them all from Pete and Tommy over at the Indy. Now I'm giving credit where credit is due. You know what they say over at the Travel Desk at Padan Aram--Harvard may be Childhood's End, but Wit's End is truly Wit's End. That...
...Died. Milton (Gummo) Marx, 84, the fourth of the five Marx Brothers; in Palm Springs, Calif. Gummo appeared with his zany siblings only during their vaudeville days. He joined the Army during World War I, then manufactured dresses in New York before turning Hollywood agent for his brothers. The surviving Marx Brothers are now Zeppo, 74, and Groucho. 86 (see PEOPLE...
...impressed by Webb's potential, Sinatra in 1975 quietly began to acquire 420,000 shares, or 5%, of the company's outstanding stock. To finance part of the purchase, he borrowed $850,000 from a City National Corp. subsidiary. Meanwhile, he and his attorney, Beverly Hills Lawyer Milton Rudin, and their allies, Las Vegas Publisher Hank Greenspun and Wife Barbara, bought up another 5% of Webb's stock...
Censorship founders first of all on a rock that Poet John Milton charted 300 years ago in his great anticensorship treatise, Areopagitica: If there were a censorship law, whom could one possibly trust to act as the censor? As Loory's Sun-Times editorialized, "Who would administer a law like that? A national news censor? Do you really want someone to shut off your news...
...Milton Eisenhower, Samuel Houston Johnson, and Donald Nixon; dull college president, drunk gambler, and shady businessman respectively didn't have people tripping over each other trying to get their autographs...