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...Rick Stafford peers through the window glass at 17 Quincy Street and raises his eyebrows in alarm. "Oh boy! We've got a function going on here," he says, pressing the buzzer firmly. No one responds so he knocks on the door, waits and buzzes again. Finally the door opens and he strides in and over to a small room where fancily dressed people are sipping cocktails. He spots Helen Gilbert (chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Overseers) whom he is supposed to photograph, and moves away to attach his flash to his camera. He thought Gilbert would be alone...
...says, "they never give you enough information on these things." "This would be the one time I didn't wear a tie," he says, smoothing back the thin black strands of hair on his balding head and buttoning his top shirt button. The guests begin waltzing into dinner and Rick follows cautiously, pausing at the dining room door. Finally he approaches Gilbert at the table. He gets a couple of shots of her there but must return after dinner for more. This shatters the smooth schedule he envisioned of processing the film immediately, getting it in the mail...
...hour he returns but an after-dinner meeting is in progress and he must sweat it out for a while longer. When the guests start dribbling out Rick approaches Gilbert again. "Oh, you wanna take some more pictures, Rick?" Gilbert announces to the room with a wide smile. She asks a friend to wait for her, "Rick is only gonna take a second...
...Quick!" she says to Rick while she corrals two students for conversation. "You have to be taken with the chairman of the Board of Overseers," she says, maneuvering one student on each side of her for the pictures. She grins and talks to the students in a booming voice while Rick clicks pictures repeatedly. "Rick is the official photographer of everything to do with Harvard," she begins. "He once took my picture skidding along the ice, for a charity show. He's gotten thin! I think he must have eaten nothing. I've been putting it on while...
They blew an early 4-0 lead when Cleveland's Rick Manning triggered a six-run sixth inning...