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Every now and then, residents of Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood see a rumpled man with sad beagle eyes bearing a big, round bundle from his bachelor apartment to a coin-operated basement laundry. There goes W. Michael Blumenthal, 52, one of the most potent powers of global finance, carrying his dirty underwear to a washing. Blumenthal surely could afford a maid, even though he took a $534,000 salary cut-from $600,000 down to $66,000-when he left private industry to become a Government servant. But he prefers to perform his own chores because...
Byrd then bought his own grocery store in Sophia, W. Va., and started earning credits for a bachelor's degree at three different West Virginia colleges. In 1952 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. "There was no time for leisure, no time for anything but work, work," says Byrd...
...call himself the "toughest cop in America," will retire from the force and make a bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. "I have discovered that there is a vacancy in the Governor's mansion," says Davis, referring to the fact that Incumbent Jerry Brown lives in his bachelor flat. "So I set my sights on that. It certainly needs to be filled, in more ways than...
...Lewis books they could find, and wound up, to their surprise, as converts. Then Jean died of a liver ailment, and Vanauken plunged into despair. It was an astringent letter from Lewis that enabled Vanauken to make some sense out of her death-and his life. Longtime Bachelor Lewis later suffered similar tragedy when he married a woman he knew was dying of cancer...
...York: Ed Koch, 52, seemed destined to represent his relatively affluent Manhattan congressional district for the remainder of his political career. What, after all, could a balding, puckish Greenwich Village bachelor with a near-perfect A.D.A. record have to say to the rest of the hardbitten, crime-ridden, near-bankrupt city? Quite a bit, as it turned...