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Follies is almost sans plot. Just before his old Broadway theater is to be torn down, Impresario Dmitri Weismann (read Flo Ziegfeld) orders a first and last reunion of his celebrated personnel. All the familiar types attend: Phyllis, the leggy brunette (Alexis Smith) who married well; Sally, the third-from-the-left blonde (Dorothy Collins) who didn't. The bolero-dancing couple (Victor Griffin and Jayne Turner) who bought a Fred Astaire franchise ("Styles change; you never can tell"), the wisecracking queen bee (Yvonne De Carlo) with her hive of young drones; the feathery Continental (Justine Johnston) who remembers Franz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Once and Future Follies | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

After the 1969 student strike, Harvard promised to build 1100 new units to accommodate the evicted tenants. Before the old houses are torn down, the residents affected will be "properly relocated into new housing or other facilities satisfactory to them," according to a letter from University officials to the Roxbury tenants last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hospital Alters Tenant Housing Policy | 4/16/1971 | See Source »

...stars of this flawed twinkle along with my old amour mehitabel the cat who makes a feline for every torn in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Golden Nonsense | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...buildings will still eliminate at least 35 housing units, and probably more after the exact boundaries of the structures are determined. Con-struction on the hospitals may start by the end of the year although the low-income housing to replace the buildings torn down won't be started until next spring, according to John Sharrat, the builder working with Roxbury tenants on the housing plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Affiliated Hospitals Center Plan Would Eliminate 35 Housing Units | 3/31/1971 | See Source »

...only place at Harvard where you could hear yourself think has been destroyed. The acoustical laboratory and its ancchoic chamber, housed in its own building on Oxford St., were torn down last Thursday and Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eerie Echoless Room Torn Down With Lab | 3/30/1971 | See Source »

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