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DIED. LEW WASSERMAN, 89, the last of Hollywood's legendary movie moguls, who headed up MCA, the parent company of Universal Pictures, for four decades; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Wasserman worked nights as a movie usher in high school. After impressing an MCA executive while promoting talent for a Cleveland nightclub, Wasserman was hired and went on to represent such clients as Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart. Fiercely protective of his stars, Wasserman kept Clark Gable's drunk-driving arrest and Betty Grable's premarital pregnancy out of the papers. He revolutionized the film...
...Staff writer Nicole B. Usher can be reached at usher@fas.harvard.edu...
Senior Corporation Fellow Robert G. Stone Jr. ’45, Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. ’59, and Richard Warch—president of Lawrence College, where Pusey served as president before coming to Harvard—also helped usher...
...favorite are the parents who usher in children barely old enough to know how to spell the word “college,” let alone know about getting in to one. They bring little Jenny or Sue up to the counter where I sit trying my hardest not to glare disapprovingly, and they motion to the child that it’s okay to begin the rehearsed questions...
...Staff writer Nicole B. Usher can be reached at usher@fas.harvard.edu...