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...Richard left Tulsa and shunned his father's Bible-centered university. While enrolled at the University of Kansas, he sang with rock bands. But he felt "a voice inside me" tugging him back to his father's school. There, he says, two weeks shy of his 20th birthday, "God got ahold of my life...
...business. The chairman of the Norton Simon conglomerate (fiscal 1982 sales: $3 billion) likes to bask in high-wattage limelight. He poses for profiles in magazines like Vogue and Success and appears in TV commercials for his Avis rent-a-car subsidiary. At his black-tie 60th birthday party last month, he and his wife Hillie, a former Miss Rheingold, played host to dozens of famous friends, including Estée Lauder, Alan King and Henry Kissinger...
...cards and telegrams of congratulation, and Harvey Fierstein is understandably elated. Elated? Levitated might be a better word. At the moment, Fierstein is floating 25 stories above his dressing room at Broadway's Little Theater. The previous night his friends gave him a party for his 29th birthday (the Moët is a reminder); the evening before that, he pulled off the equivalent of a grand slam at the Tony ceremonies: he won two awards, one for writing the year's best play, Torch Song Trilogy, and a second as best actor, for his starring role...
...genuine concern of at least some of the students about Vietnam." In October, 1970, a bomb went off in the office of a Center Fellow, Detonated, it substantially damaged a floor of offices and the library. A final attack against the CFIA--ironically, Huntington recalls, on his birthday--brought more than 1000 Boston-area demonstrators marching to the CFIA, in April 1972. There, more than 100 of them broke in and ransacked the building, setting fire to papers and books. The damage was estimated at $25,000, not to mention the loss of research...
...University does not disclose the identity of its Commencement speaker until the end of May, just as it does not announce the recipients of honorary degrees until the very moment they are called to the podium to claim them. "It's sort of like not opening all your birthday presents as they're bought for you but getting them all at once," one Harvard Overseer has explained...