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...TALL MAN in a trenchcoat swings a Marianne Moore poetry book at his side and disappears into the Grays Hall basement to begin his day's work. After greeting the men in his department, he proceeds to his office and turns on the radio to a jazz music station...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: A Day in the Life of Harvard's Chief Cop | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...Molly Brown, but just didn't want to go as high as $3,000. The day belonged to unknown buyers, who put up $2,400 for Bert Lahr's cowardly-lion suit from The Wiz ard of Oz and $1,250 for Clark Gable's battered trenchcoat. Grace Kelly's gowns from The Swan were a fire-sale bargain at $150 and less, but another nameless fan had to go to $15,000 for Judy Garland's red slippers from Oz. As the bidding spiraled around him, Actor Jack Cassidy said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 1, 1970 | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...which quite literally ended all publicity stunts isn't even mentioned by Sack. At 1:00 a.m. on the morning of last May 4, 15,000 students began to collect outside the Sack Savoy for a 4 a.m. preview of Casino Royale--free, if you wore a "super sleuth trenchcoat." With the aid of police, a bona fide riot broke out. Meanwhile the theatre's assistant manager, having filled the 2,800 seats to capacity, began rolling the film early. He later told police, "They were fighting in the aisles every time someone left his seat. [About 1, small fires...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Has Success Spoiled Ben Sack? | 4/29/1968 | See Source »

...destroys time and finds chaos. That is no revelation. Neither is it his prophetic nightmare. There are all these facts, you see: Johnny in the basement, medicine, pavement, a man in a trenchcoat, parking meters, vandals and handles. They are real. They make sense. All right, put them together. Metallic, impenetrable chaos. Subterranean Homesick Blues. Don't string the facts from the clothes line pole of conventional conceptions, don't order them with pliers of cause and effect. Just put them together--and they'll scare you. His experiment suggests how easy it is to let out ragged wild, numb...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Bob Dylan | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...legendary "Max," Moulin became head of the Resistance movement. He was small, dark and inconspicuous, usually wore a navy blue trenchcoat and a grey scarf to hide the scars that remained on his neck from his suicide attempt. Moving about the country with speed and stealth, Moulin managed to weld together mutually mistrustful Frenchmen of the left, right and center. He created a clandestine press, arranged the sabotage and harassment of Nazi detachments, and drew up plans for massive help for the eventual Allied landings. While the Nazis searched frantically for him, Moulin, nicknamed "the King of Shadows," held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: King of the Shadows | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

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