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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eventually, the Pudding, becoming a bit more daring and creative, began to write its own shows and, later, music. The 1855 production of Tom Thumb setwords to music, although it remained for Owen Wister '82, to write the first real musical--the first musical comedy in the United States. It was also the first of many Pudding dishes to tour, playing Boston, New York and Philadelphia. The question of the first truly "original" Pudding show is open to debate although the Class of 1867's claim is the earliest, and hence the accepted...

Author: By Christopher H.foreman, | Title: No One Makes Hasty Pudding Anymore | 3/7/1973 | See Source »

Among The Crimson and Magenta men of the first ten years were such easily recognizable names as Owen Wister '83 the novelist, Josiah Quincy '80, the future Mayor of Boston, Barrett Wendell '77, the legendary Harvard professor, and Frederic Jessup Stimson '76, Wilson's Ambassador to Argentina, who is most remembered today as the author of the early Harvard novel Rollos's Journey to Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Spite of a Leery Faculty, The Crimson Begins | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...into an aquatic paradise. Its 679 square miles of water make its ratio of water to land higher than Minnesota's. The Oologah, Pensacola and Eufaula reservoirs are immense. Keystone, Heyburn, Thunderbird, Hulah-the lakes multiply as fast as Senate bills. Atoka, Fort Gibson, Markham Ferry, Tenkiller Ferry, Wister; the new recreational waters created by dams abound with boats, water-skiers and fishermen. They also mean more tourists and more money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Oklahoma 1970: The Dust Bowl of the '30s Revisited | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

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