Word: barron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stein became a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where a rant about racist writing on The Jeffersons led to a job as a creative consultant for Norman Lear. Stein left D.C. for L.A., where he continued to write columns for publications ranging from Penthouse to Barron's, along with screenplays. John Hughes hired him when he was 40 to play a teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, asking him to speak extemporaneously on economics to a class. When Stein received applause from the crew members, he figured it was for successfully explaining the Hawley-Smoot Tariff...
...Curiously enough, given its serene and unnewsworthy nature, Webster Groves has been the subject of inordinate national attention over the years--happily so in 1996, when President Clinton came to honor the school's antidrug efforts, less happily in 1965, when a CBS News team, led by producer Arthur Barron and renowned correspondent Charles Kuralt, arrived to film Sixteen in Webster Groves, a one-hour documentary about the town and its high school-age adolescents...
After returning to the United States, Barron and Leaning kept in touch with the Zejnullahus. When NATO bombing of Serb military installations in Yugoslavia began this year, the two went on a PHR mission to the Balkans to locate the many doctors and children who they had met during their investigations...
...Barron and Leaning, who are members of the Lowell House Senior Common Room, located the Zejnullahus in Montenegro. They helped transport the four to Albania, and worked with the First Unitarian Parish of Concord, Mass., to bring the Zejnullahus to the United States in mid-July...
...thought of Dorothy and Diana--how much space they had, their commitment to young people, and their warmth," Barron said. "We thought it would be a perfect match...