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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other notables. The club's annual dinner is usually held in January and features a prominent member of the Harvard community. Recent events include conversations with Nelson A. Rockefeller and Andrew Young, a billiards exhibition starring Minnesota Fats and a program on antiques. Between 75 and 100 members watch films of Harvard football games every Thursday during the season. The club also fields chess and bridge teams that play in college club leagues...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The New York Harvard Club: | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

...romance with the general, but there will be no kiss and very little tell in ABC'S version. "I've got to think about a very lovely woman who is the widow of the ex-President," McCutchen explains. "We'll leave it to the people who watch the show to make up their own minds as to whether there was a romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Flood of Film Biography | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...cashmere robe or any ornament made of gold, the invaluable metal that fetched some $220 an ounce on the London market last week. Tiny gold pendants in the shape of oil barrels went for $850 and solid gold nuggets for $950. Tiffany's diamond-studded gold watch was a bargain. Its price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Gifts by Mail | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Last month Prison Director Royal Dunkin got an excited phone call from a former employee who urged him to turn on the television and watch The Dating Game. There, competing with two other contestants for a date with a Los Angeles Rams cheerleader, was Bachelor No. 1, James Shelton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: What's My Line? | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...phenomenon has been observed: children trap their parents in front of the terrible tube and force them to watch the Muppets. The parents become habituated, and thenceforth on Muppet night somewhat sheepishly remind the children to close their calculus textbooks and turn on the set. In the last stage of addiction, the parents are sheepless and do not require the presence of child stooges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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