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Buck received the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for "The Road to Reunion," considered "the standard book" on reconstruction after the Civil War, Donald H. Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paul H. Buck, Former Dean, Dies at 79 | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

With the tree packed and on its trailer, the 90 qts. of soup consumed, the four great-grandchildren excused from school, the moment came to say goodbye. There was so much hugging and kissing that it looked like a family reunion breaking up. And that was sort of what it was. Mrs. Myers prayed for her tree and a safe journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Mrs. Myers' Blue Spruce | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...sits down at the dinner table with somebody in the same business from Denver and New York and they learn how much they have in common, I think that helps jell a nation. I really do." A convention can be a profession's jungle drums, an industry's family reunion, a young person's rite of passage into the adult world of commercial or professional comradeship. A convention can also be a fresh opportunity to display talent, knowledge, oratorical skill or sales records, to reaffirm one's wealth and worthiness in the eyes of the world. No wonder 26 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convening of America | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...convention in Portsmouth, R.I., a dozen Boston policemen were discovered cavorting nude in the Ramada Inn pool; unfortunately, the discoverers were a group of visiting parochial school girls led by two nuns. And who can forget the sign that the Las Vegas Hilton hung for a reunion of former Navy aircraft-carrier jet pilots? It should have said, WELCOME TAILHOOKERS. It said, WELCOME HOOKERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convening of America | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...talents, instead, were as a showman. From Hasty Pudding to Hitler, Hanfy was a performer, and a skillful one. The Boston Transcript captured his spirit precisely in a story about his trip to Harvard for the 25th reunion of his class. "His loud manner and thirst for American gin captured everyone's affection...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Nazi Who Loved Harvard... | 12/12/1978 | See Source »

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