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...such a happily unkempt man -- he wore shoulder-length hair and bargain- basement clothes, and weighed an eighth of a ton -- Gaines' death last week seemed curiously neat: he had turned 70; his creation was turning 40; an exhaustive coffee-table-book history (Completely Mad) was in the bookstores; and, as if to reaffirm Mad's relevance, the current issues of two other magazines (Esquire and Texas Monthly) feature Alfred E. Neumanesque cover caricatures of would-be Presidents (George Bush and Ross Perot). Is there any American under 50 who did not as a youth experience Mad's liberating, irreverent...
...pity Shenk. When I confronted an Eliot House tutor with my moving out problem, he offered to let me store my boxes in his basement office...
...time we graduated, my only connection toRadcliffe was though Coggeshall, a smalloff-campus house on Walker Street, which I sharedwith 15 other women, mostly seniors. Several ofus--Nancy Wexler, Ellen Hawkes, Susan McCrenskyand others--struggled through our theses togetherin Coggeshall's basement typing room. We wrote andrevised and polished our manuscripts as earlyLinda Ronstadt played on the radio...
...remember stopping occasionally to proofreadthe chapters pouring out of the others'typewriters, to engage in spirited discussions ofour thesis subjects--George Eliot and VirginiaWolff and the New Left and Congress's power to putwarnings against smoking on cigarette packages.There, in that basement, was the only time I feltI belonged to the fellowship of educated persons.Photo Courtesy of Jay and Linda MathewsThe Harvard Crimson's executive board forthe class of'67. From left to right: JAY MATHEWS,ROBERT J. SAMUELSON, LINDA MCVEIGH(now LINDAMATHEWS), JONATHAN FUERBINGER, RICHARD BLUMENTHAL,MARVIN MILBAUER, BOISFEUILLET JONES JR. '68 andFRANKLIN E. SMITH '68 . Inset are LINDA...
When the mayor (a former police chief) heard about Hongisto's response, he ordered a police investigation. It led to the return of more than 2,100 copies of the paper after investigators seized them in a police officer's basement. The police commission then fired the chief...