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...devoted ourselves to the Harvard community," he said. "We're here Friday, Saturday, even holidays. Some days we don't have transmission, so we tow it here and tow it back...
...dark face to introduce to audiences. But beneath this delicate elegance, Dorothy was a nest of insecurities. Born in 1922, she'd been drilled for stardom by her bisexual mother Ruby, who fled a Cleveland marriage for Hollywood with her two daughters and her domineering girlfriend in tow. Dottie and sister Vivian were onstage from childhood and in films from 1935. Did they want to be? Ruby never asked...
...magazine, I was sent west from Washington by my editor with instructions to stop every hundred miles at the nearest small town and see what there was of interest. En route my Studebaker Starlight coupe got bogged down in the muddy road and had to be rescued by a tow truck. One stop was Grafton, W.Va., pointed out on your map as the "Birthplace of Mother's Day in 1908." I thought I would find a vase of red carnations on the altar of the Methodist Church where the day was first celebrated. Instead, there was a tired poinsettia left...
MARBLEHEAD, Mass.: The Blue Angels flew overhead and a Navy band played "Anchors Aweigh" as the U.S.S. Constitution cast off her tow ropes, fired off a 21-gun salute and set her sails to the wind today for the first time in 116 years, briefly patrolling the open seas much as she had during the War of 1812. She sailed for about an hour at a stately 4 knots, flanked by her modern counterparts, the guided missile destroyer USS Ramage and guided missile frigate USS Halyburton. An estimated 100,000 people turned out on land and sea for the ceremonial...
...that runs indelibly through his entire career. In 1974, a young Bill Clinton fresh out of law school campaigned for Congress. He recalled "the words of a friend of mine who works on the Scott Country road crew, "the people want a hand up, not a hand out." Twenty-tow years later, Clinton spoke in Cleveland on the last day of his last campaign. He called on Americans to "work together to give everyone the tools they need, the chance--not a guarantee, but a chance to make the most of our own lives and build that bridge...