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Tonight "Scoop" Hudgins comes in late-the legendary Scoop, the p.r. director for the college football Hall of Fame Bowl. "I tell people Coach Bryant and I were freshmen together at Vanderbilt, but it's not exactly true. It was his freshman year as coach, and my freshman year as student." Scoop offers to provide all possible information about football. Why else would someone travel to Birmingham? He has brought a Southeastern Conference football schedule for Margaret, who plays Humoresque as soon as he comes...
...particular group, race, nationality or sex. But the rich don't want to blend in with the working class any more. We want clothes that flaunt our individuality, that show off our status, and the rich want to stand out." Having Calvin Klein's name or Gloria Vanderbilt's signature attached to the hind portion of a pair of denims is one way to stand out a little bit, but moniker flash may also be passing away. The Gloria Vanderbilt people, for example, admit guardedly that there has been a sales plunge in their basic jeans model...
...younger sister Tennessee practiced many of the popular quackeries of the day: seances, psychic remedies, a bottled "elixir of life." Inspired, she said, by a vision of Demosthenes, Woodhull and her sister went to New York and arranged to introduce themselves to the newly widowed Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 84. With her "magnetic treatment" Tennessee soothed the railroad tycoon so successfully that he backed the young sisters in opening a lucrative stock brokerage. In 1870, at 31, Victoria announced she was running for President. To argue her cause, she started her own newspaper, Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, which favored, among...
Saul L. Chafin, credited with rebuilding the morale of the Harvard Police Department during his five-year tenure, left his post as chief of police to take a simnilar position at Vanderbilt University. His replacement was Paul E. Johnson, a 26-year veteran of the Boston police force, who almost immediately had to handle a hot potato in charges that the force had harassed Black youths. Johnson responded to the allegations in an appearance before the Cambridge City Council...
Ceafin left the department earlier this year to accept a similar position at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Tenn., saying he was accommodating his wife. who wanted to live in the South...