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DIED. SHEREE NORTH, 72, blond bombshell of 1950s Hollywood; of complications from surgery; in Los Angeles. Groomed to replace the flighty Marilyn Monroe, North did just that in 1955's How to Be Very, Very Popular, and later danced with Harold Lang in the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale (top). But the glamour girl's insistence on aging naturally led to memorable roles on TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as Lou Grant's savvy lady friend, and as Kramer's mother on Seinfeld...
Zander tells the story with a baby boomer's nostalgia for his 1950s childhood and a true salesman's pride. Now CEO of Motorola, Zander, 58, doesn't hide the fact that he has tried to animate the company with his particular brand of Brooklyn moxie. He acknowledges that Motorola has a storied past. (Its engineers invented the cellular phone and the walkie-talkie, and it was one of the world's first manufacturers of semiconductors.) But in the years before Zander took over, Motorola had been losing ground to the market-leading muscle of Nokia and to the stylish...
DERY: But there's also an upside to sociological clustering, at least online. In the 1950s, if you had the hapless happenstance of being born gay in Oklahoma, you might have spent many a lonely night biting your pillow and cursing the heavens for making you the only gay on earth. Now any 18-year-old with a modem is just a click away from a universe of fellow travelers, and to me, that's a good thing...
...that crowd, a recap of the plot is in order: Brad (Barry A. Shafrin ’09) and Janet (Jennifer H. Rugani ’07), a fresh-faced, virginal couple straight from 1950s social-hygiene videos, stumble onto a castle filled with cross-dressing, scantily clad, lecherous residents. They are presided over by Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a “sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania,” who has recently created—in “Frankenstein” style—Rocky (Gordon T. Kraft-Todd ’07), the perfect...
...leadership in volunteerism is not coming from traditional nonprofits," says Marc Freedman, Civic Ventures' president and co-founder, "but from a new generation of social entrepreneurs, boomers and preboomers who are taking matters into their own hands." Numbers tell part of the story. During the 1950s and early '60s, according to Leonard Steinhorn, author of the forthcoming The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, there were about 5,000 IRS-approved nonprofits. "From the 1970s through the 1990s, when boomers came into their own," he says, "that number soared to nearly...