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...worthwhile to look back at old issues of The Crimson from the early 1950s. The subject matter of the most prominently placed articles suggests that Harvard students at that time were preoccupied with the threat of nuclear annihilation. Nonetheless, a rather more thorough examination of those newspapers shows that those same students were also focused on a day-to-day level with going to football games, dances and, every now and then, their classes. I guess that’s just the way it is for most of us today. Still, it is incredibly upsetting to think that it will...
According to Jenkins, one of the rarest prints—a documentary from the 1950s by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker found only in America—is held...
Richard Clasby ’54, a rare nine-time letter winner who played on the football team, described the differences between football now and football then. Clasby discussed the aggressive tactics involved in recruiting during the 1950s, when coaches were able to offer recruits money or even jobs for relatives...
...certifiable child prodigy, young Davis could sing, dance, tell jokes, improvise, do impressions--"He did it all" would be his epitaph. The older he got the more incandescent his talent became. He was a fireball of energy. He never seemed to sleep. By the 1950s he was cutting albums, making movies, strutting on Broadway and helling around Hollywood with the likes of Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra...
According to Saundra Graham, a longtime Riverside resident and former city councillor, the town-gown rift goes as far back as the 1950s, when the University began to look at possibilities for expansion in the area...