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Cantor describes Great Neck in the 1950s and 1960s as “exuberant.” The town’s residents were moving up in the world, and, according to Cantor, “they spent their money with vulgarity and delight...
From 1931 until its demise in the early 1950s, the Harvard Vocarium produced roughly 110 records, issued catalogs of its available recordings and had fairly successful sales...
...Leave It to Beaver, The Munsters and other TV sitcoms; of complications from a stroke; in Newport Beach, Calif. A veteran of such '40s radio shows as Amos 'n Andy, he based the Beaver on his own son Ricky. In its six years on the air in the late 1950s and early '60s, and endlessly in reruns since, Leave It to Beaver created one of TV's most charming, unforced portrayals of the world through the eyes...
Gavitt, who recalled the days during the 1950s and 1960s when Ivy teams were fixtures in the national college basketball scene, said that Ivies’ current struggle to compete nationally can be linked to the format of their need-based financial aid policies. He noted that attending Harvard or Yale is often the least cost-effective option for high school athletes and suggested that the entire conference move to a system of fully-funded aid packages that would not include loans...
DIED. ISSER HAREL, 91, Israeli spymaster who headed Mossad, the country's intelligence agency during the 1950s and early 1960s, and who masterminded the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1960; in Petah Tikva, Israel. In the 1975 book The House on Garibaldi Street, which was made into a TV movie, Harel wrote about how he snared Eichmann. Much feared by his enemies, Harel unmasked Israel Beer, a Soviet mole who had penetrated Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's inner circle, and once made a man confess by simply saying: "I know you're a Russian...