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...store's owners, Paula and Michael Braverman, who also own another Hidden Sweets on Cambridge Street in Boston, hope to match Harvard Square's diversity with a non-pareil range of sweets. The store will offer a range of Nutrasweet candies as well as more traditional, guilt-laden sweets...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: New Square Candy Store Opening | 1/19/1994 | See Source »

...four more weeks, Harvard's trench artists non-pareil will keep fashioning their fine work, for the most part unnoticed...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Harvard's Line Is All Right | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

More specifically, the story concerns Stephen Rojack, a war hero from Harvard (the "one intellectual in America's history with a Distinguished Service Cross"), ex-congressman, T.V. personality, professor of existentialist psychology with voodooish overtones, author, boxer, and stud non-pareil...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Mailer's Violent Dream: Murder, Sex, Madness | 4/15/1965 | See Source »

...great actress," instructed Actor Mason, "has talent plus intelligence plus imagination plus X." The only cinemactress whom Mason currently found in possession of "plus X": Greta Garbo. The other four best: Dorothy McGuire, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, and "a non-pareil," Lena Home (see Music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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