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Perkins agreed that departments would be taking a greater risk in tenuring young scholars, like those in their 30s, but said it's a risk worth taking...
Over the years Beaton was lucky enough-or adroit enough-to find himself in most of the right places at most of the right times. He was in Hollywood during its heyday in the '30s, and in the '40s he covered all the war fronts for the British propaganda office. In the '50s he astonished the fashion world with his magnificent costumes for My Fair Lady and Gigi, and by the '60s he had fully established himself as a waspish, infallible arbiter elegantiae, the Petronius of Britain's comfortably padded decline...
DIED. Lynn Patrick, 67, All-Star National Hockey League player for the New York Rangers and first coach and general manager of the St. Louis Blues; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. Patrick was a high-scoring winger for the Rangers in the '30s and '40s and played on the 1942 N.H.L. All-Star team. He coached the Rangers and the Boston Bruins before joining the St. Louis Blues in 1966 and brought the team into the Stanley Cup finals in each of his first three years with the club...
Carl F. Krebs '81 said he had hoped to spend the summer in Germany studying modern architecture in the '20s and '30s and was disappointed with the elimination of grants. He added, however, that he still hopes to make it to Europe, although it may mean spending his own savings...
...dancing, like jazz, is part of deep-rooted black culture. Slaves hoofed on bare dirt to silent rhythms; eventually stuck metal plates to the toe and heel of flat shoes. Tap's heyday came during the Harlem Renaissance of the 20s and 30s. Later, popularity spread when tap giants John Bubbles and Bill Robinson starred in Hollywood movies...