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...vocalists were Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Who, for a second-grade show-and-tell about a famous American (in which most of the boys dressed as George Washington and most of the girls as Florence Nightingale), showed up as Bessie Smith, in a big old dress and a perm like an Afro. "When I was a little kid," Molly says, "I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs...
...labor camp near Perm in the Urals, Shcharansky was locked up for 185 days in a 7-ft.-square punishment cell where he received food and water only every other day. In 1981 he was given three additional years in prison for "continuing to consider himself not guilty." Visiting him in 1984, his mother, a Soviet citizen, found him shockingly emaciated and in severe pain from heart disease. Last month, however, Shcharansky wrote his family that he had recently begun to receive better treatment and some medical care, apparently so he could make a presentable appearance in the West...
...built apartments in Brooklyn and Queens. But Trump the younger focused on the borough of Manhattan. In the mid 1970s, when real estate prices there were depressed by a recession and the city's financial problems, Trump astonished people by buying the old Commodore Hotel from the bankrupt Perm Central. He gutted it, put in lots of glass and chrome, and reopened it as the Grand Hyatt. Says he: "We expected to get an average of $38 a night...
...formed in the past few years on both sets of musical pranksters, however. An overrefined dignitary from the dean's office has objected to Harvard's best formation-the word PROCREATE!, more or less, spelled out on the field at half time. In 1980 at the Perm game, the bandsmen compromised by forming the same message in Arabic script. This, too, was deemed unacceptable. This year the subdued bandies did march into the bowl singing "To hell with Yale" to the tune of O Tannenbaum, but that was all. The Yale band also did not sink...