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Poured Foundation. Gagosian, 46, was one of the first to recognize such trends. Son of an Armenian immigrant who was converted to Mormonism ("I'll bet I'm the only Armenian Mormon you ever met"), Gagosian literally helped pour the foundation of the nation's motel industry. In a 20-year career as a hardhat construction worker and later as vice president in charge of construction for TraveLodge Corp., he helped build more than 300 motels. He tired of duplicating TraveLodge's basic pattern, and in 1965 assembled three fellow employees and $50,000 to build...
Across the Atlantic last week, several parents who also happen to be famous entertainers proudly posed their offspring for photographers. In a Paris church, an Armenian prelate baptized a reluctant Katia, the daughter of Singer Charles Aznavour and his wife, Ulla. At a maternity ward in North Wales, Actress Gayle Hunnicutt introduced her newly born and yet unnamed son to her husband, British Actor David Hemmings. And near London, where she opened at $84 a week in a nonsinging part in the Henry James play, The High Bid, Eartha Kitt took time off from her new role to play with...
...when he was in his 20s, an Armenian named Dikran Kouyoumjian created a string of literary entertainments about the Bright Young People of London's Mayfair. No one was better than he at writing about "silly young Lords, who drink champagne in the morning, and marvelous new 1920s women, who swear (ever so slightly) and are bored with silly young Lords." His greatest confection was Iris March (in The Green Hat), a fell lady who seductively drops her keepsake emerald on the floor in Chapter 1, but finally dies, for love and honor, in a flaming yellow Hispano-Suiza...
Boghosian's own roots were far removed from Grecian lore. The son of an Armenian cobbler, he grew up in New Britain, Conn. After a stint in the Navy, he attended college under the G.I. Bill, finishing up with a year under the "hard but kind" tutelage of Bauhaus Master Josef Albers at Yale. Now 43, he teaches sculpture himself at Dartmouth. He first became interested in Orpheus during college days, and printed a small portfolio of woodcuts, accompanied by his own poetry. Years later, while he was picking up driftwood on a Provincetown beach, the story of Orpheus...
...honky lawyer win the complete trust of the Panthers? Garry says that they were looking for an able trial lawyer who could also "project the correct social views in defending his clients." He met all the requirements. Born in Bridgewater, Mass., he was the son of immigrant Armenian parents named Garabedian who later moved to California's Central Valley. He learned about discrimination at an early age. "I was called a goddamned Armenian," he recalls. "Until I finished grammar school, I think I had a fight every single night." After high school, Garry worked in a cleaning shop while...