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...People on both sides of the argument felt very passionately and this did lead to many accomplishments such as a report on discipline, increased social events, taking over the raft race, and a report which led to making Harvard accessible to the handicapped through television," Offutt says...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: The Undergraduate Council: Moving Into Smoother Waters | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

...council appropriated $2700 for the annualHarvard-Radcliffe Raft Race. This year's expandedevent will include a tug-o-war, an airband-lipsync contest, and a celebrity dunk tank...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Council Hopes Plaque Will Affect Tenure Process | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

...Director John Huston got hold of it, first under the clanking title Dangerous Female, then as Satan Met a Lady. Studio biggies were narrowly headed off from calling Huston's version The Gent from Frisco. Before Humphrey Bogart got the starring role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train for her to play with. Producer Mervyn LeRoy took the script of Quo Vadis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tales Of | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

Conroy tempts fate and the limits of his talent when he plays at being William Styron, John Irving and perhaps even Mark Twain, if Dr. Lowenstein's couch is considered as a raft on which Jew and Gentile drift toward enlightenment. There is also a reckless blend of Bobbsey Twins adventure and revenge fantasies usually associated with drive-in-movie horror festivals. Would you believe that after Lila, Savannah and Tom are raped by three escaped convicts, the family's pet Bengal tiger bursts in and rips the criminals into small pieces? Would you believe that no one finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The World According to Wingo the Prince of Tides | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...student celebration should have been approached from the perspective of being open to everyone," says Evan J. Mandery '89, chairman of the council's social committee, which last year planned such events as the Battle of the Bands, the Yale Tailgate Party, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Adams House Raft Race...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Little Voice for Elected Representatives | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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