People, Feb. 25, 1980

She was the prettiest girl in the crowd of flowing skirts, crimson lips and bizarre hairdos—and the only one. Actress Meryl Streep had come to Cambridge, Mass., to accept an acting award from the thespians at Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals and to watch some skits from their all-male musical spoof, A Little Knife Music. Streep, an old Eli who studied acting at the Yale School of Drama, was presented with a gold pudding pot, and was also granted custody of one of the burly "chorus girls" who surrounded her—a send-up substitute for the kid she lost to Dustin Hoffman in Kramer...

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