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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice-chairman of the group is Douglas C. Salmond '62, treasurer is Robert J. Graham II '62, and activities director is Robert W. Colman...
...night when a second Nixon group, which had "only an inkling that there might be another club," was organized. The new group was formed because "we wanted to take the initiative and get the ball rolling in view of the newly-organized Harvard Students for Rockefeller Club," according to W. Stuart Parsons '62, provisional president...
...Just by playing the country's top tunes-first on the radio (15 years), then on television (9 years)-the American Tobacco Co. sold so many cigarettes that it even produced a new brand: Hit Parade. Lannie Ross, Lawrence Tibbett, Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, Fred Astaire, W. C. Fields all marched on the show with such regulars as Dorothy Collins and Snooky Lanson. Then came rock 'n' roll. The sort of stuff that Elvis sings began to lead the Parade, and American Tobacco apparently decided that kids who listen to that brand of song are hardly sophisticated...
...Wilde for suing the Marquis of Queensberry for libel when he referred (accurately) to the poet's homosexuality; Schiller by the Duke of Württemberg after the stir caused by his social criticism in The Robbers...
Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, and Central Intelligence Chief Allen W. Dulles, the ailing secretary's brother, met him at the airport when his plane arrived...