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...tumbling the pillars of organized religion, exposing homosexuality in prison, discussing Lesbianism, and depicting small towns as hopelessly dull (there's nothing to do but visit Woolworth's and the cannon; you get in a cab and the driver turns around and asks you if you know where he can get laid), Lenny was labelled "sicknik" by Time magazine. He had won a cult of followers, but his appeal was by no means universal. And then came the arrests...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Shooting Down Lenny Bruce | 12/4/1974 | See Source »

...opposite the Algonquin" and only a few steps away from The New Yorker -and she has a canny, survivor's eye for a bargain. "The coffee at Bickford's is only 16?," she will say, "but they rob you at Childs." She broods on the differences between Woolworth's and Lamston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moments of Recognition | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Harvard's top player, Ken Lindner, defeated senior Rick Woolworth, 6-3, 6-2, while second man John Ingard, a junior from Lincoln, Mass., edged Rob Tesar, 6-4, 7-6. Gary Reiner, in the third singles slot, downed Steve Davis...

Author: By Elizabeth P. Eggert, | Title: Netmen Smash Dartmouth, 7-2, To Earn Sixth EITA Victory | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

Lindner paired with Gardner Rowbothom at first singles, downing Woolworth and Myers, 6-3, 6-2, and then Hyde and senior Charlie Krusen, combining at second doubles, fell to Dartmouth's Tesar and Glover...

Author: By Elizabeth P. Eggert, | Title: Netmen Smash Dartmouth, 7-2, To Earn Sixth EITA Victory | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...most pacifist organization on campus, a group called Tocsin that never had more than about 80 members. Tocsin had grown out of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy in the summer of 1960--the same year that saw a minor flurry of small student demonstrations outside the Cambridge Woolworth's, in solidarity with sit-ins to integrate the chain's Southern branches--as a small Harvard study group discussing the Cold War and disarmament. Tocsin quickly went beyond mere discussion, lobbying for disarmament and even joining more militantly pacifist student groups elsewhere in a February 1962 march on Washington...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: A History of the Strike | 4/10/1974 | See Source »

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