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...born Nathan Birnbaum on New York City's Lower East Side, one of 12 children. By his teens he was doing anything he could to break into vaudeville, from trick roller-skating to performing with a trained seal. "Whatever type of act the booking agent was looking for," he recalled, "happened to be the type of act I did." He did comedy routines with a series of partners, changing his name with each new act--because, he claimed, the booker would never have rehired him if he knew...
Dean Epps' breathtaking essay entitled, "The Uses of Diversity," provides a most chilling historical account of past Harvard presidents' concerns about race relations at this school. Surprisingly, it pretty much says that everyone from Nathan Pusey, who served as president in the 19th century, to current president Neil L. Rudenstine has addressed race relations. Congrats, guys. Let's keep up the tradition for years to come. Address it, write an essay or two and pass the legacy on. Harvard is all about legacy anyway...
...CROWD WAITS impatiently downstairs, Starina, the headliner, sits at her dressing table. She powders away the age lines. She applies mascara to the eyes that have bewitched a thousand sailors. She runs an electric shaver over her chin stubble. It's hard work being a drag queen, as Starina (Nathan Lane), diva deluxe of The Birdcage, can testify...
Former Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 articulated the mission of the proposed program at a 1964 press conference at the Kennedy Library, according to a newsletter published...
...annual report of then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 for the year 1969-1970, for example, dealt with the violent student protests of that year and other issues in student-administration relations...