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...alumni who compose the group perform variegated duties, ranging from the chief marshal's luncheon (attended by honorary degree recipients and University bigwigs), seating and ushering, organizing the procession of alumni, escorting the older alumni in the march proper, and managing the "tree spread" (lunch for alumni in the 50th reunion class and older). The committee as a whole meets but once a year, because its members are so well-trained in their respective tasks...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Keeping Commencement Happy | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

Perhaps Lowell House senior John Weston got the greatest boost from the crowd when he found himself running alongside a 73-year-old man. "At the 17-mile mark I was shoulder to shoulder with this guy running his 50th Marathon," Weston explained yesterday. At the 20-mile mark, a policeman called out, 'Let's have a big hand for John Kelley,' and much to my chagrin I realized they weren't yelling...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Miles and Trials of Crimson Marathoners | 4/23/1980 | See Source »

With a few exceptions, like Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda, most of the great figures­the faces and the voices from the '30s and the '40s­are either dead or in retirement. But as she celebrates her 72nd birthday this week, and her 50th year in films this year, Davis, trim, vigorous and in buoyant good health, is still busy. She won an Emmy last year playing a mother who finally reconciles with her daughter in a CBS special called Strangers; in her entire career she has probably never given a better or more poignant performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Just a Dame from New England | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

Fifty. Funny he should mention it. Because 1980 marks the 50th anniversary of the IAB's construction. Harvard historians have had little difficulty verifying that, but the best records available indicate the shiny new IAB opened on Dec. 13, 1930, when the Crimson dealt Holy Cross a 35-22 defeat...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Farewell to the Captain and Maybe to the IAB | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...last month- turned into a pumpkin for such blue-ribbon investment bankers as Salomon Bros., which had underwritten the deal. Because of difficulties selling the IBM securities, Salomon and other traders had to swallow losses of $10 million. For the once staid bond market, it has been a fitting 50th anniversary of the Great Crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trader's Cry: This Market Stinks | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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