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Armed Forces radio broadcasts glum little ads urging G.I.s to use egg timers when they call long distance and to watch for red-tag sales at the PX. "We used to say, 'Come to Europe and broaden your horizons,' " says Major Dennis Pinkham, a public-affairs officer at European Command. "Now that word is out that things are tough, that's kind of a bitter pill to swallow." With many economists predicting even harder times ahead for the shrunken dollar, the pill is most easily washed down with cut-rate beer in the barracks...
...Dowlings and House co-chairmen Richard Zayas and Margaret Pinkham hosted the gala, and Thomas Professor of English and American Literature Emeritus Daniel Aaron spoke at the dinner. About 130 people attended the dinner and 75 came to the dance afterwards...
...Margaret Pinkham (19:36.7), Captain Alison Keller (19:44.1), freshmen Renee Covi (19:48.5), and Romney Resney (20:07.4) rounded out the Crimson finishers...
...narrow row," assigns Margaret's case to a talented younger colleague. An operation seems in order. Whether it succeeds or not, the patient wants to explain to her only child, Bayard, 16, the son of her second marriage, why his parents broke up and why his once aristocratic father, Pinkham Strong, has become the alcoholic custodian of a secondhand-clothes shop in lower Manhattan...
Margaret's written apologia to her son forms one vivid strand of this intricately interwoven novel. She and Pinkham had flourished during the 1960s. It was a time of adolescent hope, particularly for people entering their 30s and 40s. She writes, "Your father, think of it, Bayard, was rebuilding slums. There was to be warmth and light, Shakespeare and the beat of African drums . . . Your mother wrapped in a slave's headcloth above a bastard dashiki. French champagne with grits. See the good of it before you laugh...