Word: thompson
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They had already tried Bill Cosby and Mel Brooks--the first and second choices--and after Ali on the list came journalist Hunter S. Thompson and Washington Post publisher Kathryn Graham...
...Neither Thompson not Graham could arrange to be in Cambridge on such short notice, go the committee made up a subsidiary list of names, including Howard Cosell, Art Buchwaid, Walter Cronkite, Garry Trudeau and Gregory...
...Class Day Committee has contacted writer Hunter S. Thompson, publisher Katherine Graham and sportscaster Howard Cosell as possible replacements for Ali, but none of the three seem likely to appear at the exercises for this year's graduating seniors, committee member Peter S. Carfagna '75 said yesterday...
Carfagna said Thompson had earlier expressed "a great desire to speak at Harvard at any time" and added that he was "confident that he'll come, even at this late date...
...Thompson writes for Rolling Stone Magazine and a spokesman for the magazine said last night she doubted Thompson would be able to come to Harvard since he was working under a deadline on an article. Thompson returned from a two month stay in Sargen earlier this month...