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...Manhattan woman who bought carpet from a tony department store was pleased that the two installers were so friendly and efficient, but puzzled about why they left "like two robbers in a getaway car." Later she discovered the reason: they had used her bathroom as a Dumpster for a three-foot pile of carpet clippings and packing material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Service: Pul-eeze! Will Somebody Help Me? | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...audience devours Beehive like a three-foot hoagie. They may stand up and sing The Name Game ("Sarah, Sarah, bo barah, bonana fanna fo farah, fee fi mo marah . . . Sarah!"). They wallow in Lesley Gore's perky petulance ("It's my party and I'll cry if I want to") and sway to the Motown philosophizing of the Supremes ("Baby, baby, where did our love go?"). They thrill again to the eloquent plaint of the Shangri-Las ("Remember, walkin' in the sand") and the sly taunts of the Angels ("My boyfriend's back, he's gonna save my reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of the Dream Girls | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

About 10 members of the Harvard Divinity School Peace Affinity Group raised the three-foot high crosses as a "personal expression of our grief" for the atrocities committed by the Contras in Nicaragua, said Sharon D. Welch, assistant professor of theology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity School Activists Protest Contra `Atrocities' | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

John J. Farrell, of 153 Allston St., pleaded guilty to assault with dangerous weapon for chasing Stuart R. Mawhinney with a three-foot stick in front of Canaday...

Author: By Cynthia V. Hooper, | Title: Man Who Fought Frosh Gets Six Months in Jail | 12/10/1985 | See Source »

...Saturday, Harvard Police arrested John J. Farrel, 20, of 153 Allston St. in Cambridge, for attacking a male Greenough resident with a three-foot stick in front of the entrance to Canaday C. After being arrested on Garden St., Farrel was turned over to the Cambridge Police Department...

Author: By Peter J. Howe and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Students Mugged on Campus | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

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