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Students no longer stroll along the much-traversed sidewalk between Thayer Hall and Memorial Church, now closed off from traffic by tall, mesh-covered chain-link fences. The walkway is just one of the parts in and around Harvard Yard that has fallen victim to summer construction...
DIED. CATHERINE WOOLLEY, 100, writer of 87 children's books including The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy and the Gus the Ghost series; in Truro, Mass. So prolific that her publisher advised her to take an occasional pseudonym, she often used her grandmother's name, Jane Thayer...
...another case of corporate indigestion, Pantry Pride, the supermarket chain that acquired Revlon in November, last week announced that it had sold two Revlon units to Beecham Group, a British conglomerate, for $395 million. The two jettisoned Revlon divisions are Norcliff Thayer, maker of Tums antacids and other over-the-counter medications, and Reheis, a chemicals manufacturer. ENTERTAINMENT Rockin' with Uncle...
DIED. LORNA THAYER, 85, actress immortalized by her role as an intractable waitress in the 1970 Jack Nicholson film Five Easy Pieces; in Woodland Hills, Calif. In the movie, her unyielding "No substitutions" to Nicholson's request for toast with his lunch order prompts a prickly exchange that culminates with her disgusted "You want me to hold the chicken, huh?" and a Nicholson retort that has made the scene a fixture of Hollywood highlight reels...
...officer investigated the theft of a $1,900 IBM ThinkPad laptop in Thayer Hall...