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Huck Finn's spirit may be lurking near the Charles this Saturday at the First Annual Adams House Raft Race. The race will begin...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Adams Sponsors Raft Race Tomorrow As Bikers Speed to Wellesley College | 4/30/1971 | See Source »

Racers will compete for four awards. The Huckleberry Finn Award will go to the first raft which sinks. The most original raft will receive the Harry Parker Award, named after the popular head coach of the Harvard crew...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Adams Sponsors Raft Race Tomorrow As Bikers Speed to Wellesley College | 4/30/1971 | See Source »

...first raft to finish will receive one case of beer, a five-dollar gift certificate to Elsie's, and two tickets to the Adams House Soul Review tomorrow night. Lee said that a launch will be on the river to pick up debris and survivors. In addition, representatives of the Health Services will be on hand to take care of cases of frostbite and other diseases...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Adams Sponsors Raft Race Tomorrow As Bikers Speed to Wellesley College | 4/30/1971 | See Source »

...characteristic of a frontier society in which isolation appears to be the rule. Sara Brownell's lighting and Bob McCoy's piano accompaniment (while the latter seems too often intrusive in the rowdier episodes) are suggestive of the lonely, moral equilibrium that Huck can find only on a raft in mid-river. Fletcher World's Jim, although characterized with an understated dignity and authority that Twain himself hardly could have imagined, delivers a couple of especially effective soliloquys. These are the moments when all the magical elements of the story-teller's art coalesce. But they are numbered...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Story Theatre Huckleberry Finn at the Loeb, this weekend and next | 4/17/1971 | See Source »

...rest of the shares from his relatives, moved to Hollywood and broke into moviemaking. After some early failures, he began producing hits, including Hell's Angels, Scar face and The Outlaw, which made Jane Russell a national pinup girl. His pictures introduced, among others, Jean Harlow, George Raft, Pat O'Brien and Paul Muni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shootout at the Hughes Corral | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

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