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...operas or Naked Gun movies. Then again, perhaps she should not have been so shocked at the estate's relative puniness. "Elvis," she notes with an ex-wife's hard-won lucidity, "did not plan for the future. When he needed money, he would just call [manager] Colonel [Tom] Parker up and say, 'Get me a tour,' and he would spend the money just as fast as he got booked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOVE ME LEGAL TENDER | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

When is a party more than a party? When a future King is throwing it, publicly, for his mistress. The British press was all atwitter about the implications of the fancy 50th birthday knees-up that CHARLES threw for CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES at his Highgrove estate. Camilla turned up early in a dazzling diamond necklace, possibly a gift from Charles, to greet guests--including her ex-husband. The bash was held in a 120-ft.-long marquee in Highgrove's meticulously tended gardens. Everyone was happy except perhaps the local vicar, who pointed out to the BBC a few days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 28, 1997 | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

...causes us some concern, but it hasn't actually affected our operations in any way," said Harry L. Parker, the men's heavyweight crew coach...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Clean-up Efforts of River Continue Despite Setbacks | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Heavies Coach: Harry Parker...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: Lights Take HYPs; Heavies Persevere | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...approach encouraged exploration of common themes and original scholarship. It was in Donald Fleming's American intellectual history course that I really first understood that factual conclusions have a lot to do with who is determining the facts and reaching the conclusions. My tutors, Barry O'Connell and Gail Parker, directed my intellectual growth with the right amounts of demand and reassurance...

Author: By Kenneth E. Reeves, | Title: REMEMBERING 1972: LOOKING BACK ON HARVARD | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

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