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Died. Ann Pennington, 77, dimple-kneed darling of George White's Scandals and popularizer of the Black Bottom dance craze in the '20s; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan. "Tiny" Pennington-she stood 4 ft. 11½ in. in heels and weighed just over 100 lbs.-started out in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies, where White was her dancing partner in 1915. When White went on his own four years later, he took Tiny with him. She soon shimmied her way to $1,000-a-week stardom in films and on the stage. Her career faded after...
...light-186,000 miles per second -Fendell's commands took 1.8 seconds to reach the camera. Another three seconds elapsed before the image arrived back in Houston (the extra time was needed to convert the signals into a standard TV picture). Thus, before he or his assistant, Al Pennington, 27, saw the camera's response to their com-NASA mands, a total of nearly five full seconds had gone...
Students required to withdraw need a favorable vote by the CRR before they can re-enter Harvard. The Committee reminded Soloway, Pennington, Bagot, and Harrison in its letters to them that "the definition of required to withdraw . . . includes the provision that sustained or significant presence on Harvard property . . . will jeopardize your prospects for readmission and can have legal consequences...
...Pennington, charged by the Administration, did not attend his hearing. Two of the four students who stayed away from their hearings were acquitted: Blustein and Helfand...
...chairman Donald G. Anderson said last night that if the Committee had reached its decisions before exams began, it would have required Soloway, Pennington, Bagot and Harrison to withdraw immediately...