Word: starr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Have a fag, mate," cracked Ringo Starr. Neither twin was very tony. Still it was hard to tell them apart until someone asked if the real Beatles would please sit down. The ones with the wax between their ears didn't move, and fans at London's Madame Tussaud's were finally sure which was which. Louis Armstrong knocked the rag mops off the top of Variety's singles chart last week, and the whisper was that they had passed their peak. But if their graven images at the world's foremost wax museum were...
...dispute arose when John W. Starr '64 protested the omission of Rockefeller's name from the Harvard delegation list. Starr appealed to a convention rule that delegates' names may be submitted orally as well as in writing...
...Starr said that during a conversation in the Quincy House dining hall about two weeks ago, he had told credentials committee chairman James I.K. Knapp '64 that "Larry will head up the Rockefeller floor fight," but that his name had accidently been left off the list...
Knapp, a Goldwater supporter, denied that the conversation constituted formal notification, but Starr insisted that the situation was covered by the rules. "The point is not the intent," Knapp retorted, "it is the fact...
...inclusion of Rockefeller brought the size of the Harvard contingent to 226, making it by far the largest delegation at the convention. Agreement on this number was not reached until tonight, when Starr informally protested to Knapp that the Harvard group had been unfairly limited to only 97. Knapp conceded the mistake, but said it was the result of a disorderly list of delegates given...