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...DIED. Robert Sterling, 88, hunky actor in low-profile 1940s MGM movies who shot to national fame as a ghost, below, with co-stars Anne Jeffreys, his off- and onscreen wife, and Leo G. Carroll, on the hugely popular 1950s TV sitcom Topper; in Brentwood, Calif. Sterling played George Kerby, who, with wife Marion, dies in a skiing accident, then returns to his former home where the spectral couple end up coaching new occupant Cosmo Topper--a cranky banker and the only person who can see the Kerbys--on how to enjoy life...
Unionization is expected to lead to collective bargaining. Will the foster parents strike? Probably not--less than 3% of labor talks end in strikes. Plus, says Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary who is a public-policy professor at Berkeley, "when they agreed to take on foster kids, they took on a moral obligation to parent them well...
...demagogues in a time when a shadow had come over the country.”This dedication to public service is evident in Rosenthal’s career. After a stint at The Oregonian as a news and sports reporter, he became a speechwriter and special assistant to Robert F. Kennedy in 1961, and then later a press officer for the State Department. He returned to Harvard in 1967 as a Kennedy Fellow at the Institute of Politics.“If you’d once left journalism and gone to the other side it was really hard...
...Lowell House student tried to find out how a fridge worked, ruptured the machine’s gas pipe and had to be rescued by the fire department. 4/23: Harvard, MIT get largest electron accelerator in the world. Costing $6.5 million, the project will be completed by 1960. 5/7: Robert B. Woodward, Loeb professor of chemistry, synthesized reserpine, an important drug in the treatment of mental disorders. One day later, the student council proposes a new student activity center.6/1: Dean of Freshmen bans the freshman smoker. 73 percent of freshman have poor teeth, according to James M. Duning, director...
...Radcliffe mixers with lax alcohol rules—two graduate students decided to celebrate the completion of their oral exams by doing something mindless: getting jollied-up. One of the doctoral students, who led Whitman’s Gen Ed section, hated dancing with his students. So his friend, Robert Whitman, took her hand—literally.“I remember going upstairs and telling my roommate: I’ve met the man I’m going to marry,” Whitman says.That fateful dance didn’t keep Whitman from “enjoying...