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...white men. Underscoring the need for a stronger fundraising base, most Overseers themselves tacitly consented to this change in emphasis; Harvard administrators have given even blunter approval of the strategy. In addition, Harvard Magazine, in compliance with officials' requests, last month published an article extolling the Overseers of yore and insinuating that the new breed of Overseers has brought Harvard to the brink of financial disaster...
Stony's father (Chev Rodgers) was a rock star in the days of yore, the '60s, and his mother (Anne Jackson) was the original flower child. But, as Stony now discovers, his mother was really his father as well, having undergone a sex change at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Poor Stony-suffering from a new version of that old dramatic ailment, the identity crisis-dreams of falling in love with a sensuous plant, which at least has roots. Wintermouth finds and loses the cure for cancer. He is instantaneously transformed from the world's hero into its fool...
...books sold 6 million copies in 1976. Bantam's Barbara Cartland, 75, the grandma of the genre and a one-woman fiction factory who can dictate a 180-page book in seven days, has 212 titles to her credit. Last year she wrote 21 love stories of beribboned yore in which, as usual, all the heroines remained virgins...
...faster, stronger and bushier than ever-New York is a notable exception now that George Steinbrenner has decreed short hair in order to instill "Yankee pride" in his players-but they still fit into the diamond in such a way as to generate the same slow magnetism of yore. Football fans pay up to $18 a seat for thrills, chills, shocks and jolts. Baseball fans welcome thrills, too; last year's rousing World Series remains a vivid memory. But for their money they just ask for flavor. It won't be easy for the sport to reconcile...
...heard secondhand that Hubert had decided to run for President in 1968, sent him a sarcastic telegram: "Let me know if I can be of help." And a woman overnight guest at the L.B.J. ranch was awakened in bed by a familiar drawl, "Move over−this is yore President...