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...since Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlined the plan that was to raise Europe from the ashes has a commencement speaker stirred as much attention as has the exiled Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Both speeches were delivered in Harvard Yard, something of a symbol of the Western spirit of inquiry and humanism. The two speeches were separated by 31 years-but also by an immeasurable philosophical abyss. Marshall in 1947 was calling on the U.S., the world's supreme democracy, to turn its resources and energies to the rescue of an exhausted, endangered continent. Solzhenitsyn...
DIED. Robert Fabian, 77, legendary British detective who until 1949 headed Scotland Yard's Flying Squad; in Epsom, Surrey, England. Fabian said that to beat a crook one had to follow the "reasonings of his warped mind," but his findings were as often the result of tenacious 18-hour-a-day investigations. In his most famous case, the Alec de Antiquis murder in 1947, he traced the killers through a ticket sewn in the lining of a filthy raincoat. After his retirement, he lectured and wrote Fabian of the Yard. His book and sleuthing inspired movie plots...
Centennial +3: Celebration of the 103rd Summer Session. Features music, dance, drama and refreshments. All afternoon, Harvard Yard. Free...
...Pizza--Linden St. Once upon a time there was this guy named Joe who owned a pizzeria across Mass Ave from the Yard. Joe was, to put it mildly, something of an eccentric--he drove a hearse to work, for example. And he decorated his place with portraits of all the presidents, an incredibly tacky nude, and a salute to Christopher Columbus (the godfather of pizza, apparently). Oh yeah, he also served pizza, and would, on request, launch into half-English, half-Italian tirades about anything and nothing. His pizza was something less than great--greasy, soggy and altogether none...
...Yard Punch: Music and refreshments. 3:00 p.m. on Memorial Church steps. Free...