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...started calling. We called her room in Canaday once on the third day. "No, she hasn't shown up yet." Twice the next day, Immediately after every meal on the day after that. Nothing. Someone said that a guy from Thayer and one of Catherine Oxenberg's intended roommates had started dating after spending so much time on the phone talking about the mystery women...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Pictures of Catherine | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...started calling We called her room in Canaday once on the third day. "No, she hasn't shown up yet." Twice the next day. Immediately after every meal on the day after that. Nothing. Someone said that a guy from Thayer and one of Catherine Oxenberg's intended roommates had started dating after spending so much time on the phone together talking about the mystery woman...

Author: By Paul M. Barrell, | Title: Pictures of Catherine | 7/9/1982 | See Source »

...harshness and the beauty came from New England and Massachusetts, where Cheever was born, in Quincy, of sturdy Yankee stock. An ancestor, Ezekiel, had come to the Bay Colony in 1637 and founded the Boston Latin School. Young Cheever maintained family traditions by attending Thayer Academy, but then managed at age 17 to get himself kicked out for smoking and laziness. Within a year, his short story Expelled appeared in the New Republic. He spent some time in Boston with his older brother Fred, then took a cheap room in Manhattan and pounded out short stories to pay the rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Celebrant of Sunlight | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

After Finn and Den Hartog scored, their William and Mary counterparts, Dana Hooper and Whitney Thayer, went to work At 5:30. Thayer, a recent transfer from UMass, beat Harvard goaltender Charlotte Worsley to knot the score, 2-2. Hooper followed with a side-arm shot to give the Southerners a lead they never relinquished...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: MacMillan, Carillo Connect for Three Goals, But William and Mary Tops Laxwomen, 11-7 | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

America's flirtation with wood-burning stoves has flamed into a love affair. So strong has the affinity become that more U.S. homes are now heated by wood than by electricity from nuclear power plants. A recent study by Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering also found that more than 49% of all industrial boilers built in 1980 burn mainly wood. Says Energy Expert Nigel Smith of Worldwatch: "The U.S. is on the crest of the wave of nations returning to wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Woodstock Nation | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

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