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Pulpit Natural. Born in Marshall, Texas, in 1920, Farmer was a member of the black intellectual elite from the start. His father, a college professor, was the state's first Negro Ph.D.; he read Aramaic and Greek. At 18, Farmer received a B.S. in chemistry from Wiley College. Seemingly a natural for the pulpit (he had won a $1,000 prize for oratory), Farmer got a divinity degree from Howard University but was never ordained. He was repelled by the then segregationist policies of the Methodist Church, which inevitably led him into the infant civil rights movement...
...assume a fatherly role in encouraging their wives' interests and education. Bing Crosby, who was 53 in 1957 when he married Kathy Crosby, then 23, encouraged his wife's careers as an actress and a nurse. Justice Douglas has been quietly protective in introducing his young Oregon-born wife to Washington's intimidating society. On the other hand, a young wife should not be unduly nervous about reminding her husband of their age difference-elaborately avoiding another set of tennis or politely yawning at 11 p.m. Most older men will only react by trying doubly hard...
When the idea of voluntary health insurance for the U.S. germinated in the 1930s, the actuaries insisted that whatever was covered must be quantifiable, so that it could be priced. They hit upon hospitalization as a tangible item, and Blue Cross was born. But definitions of hospital costs are so complex that ever since, while it has expanded into 45 states, Blue Cross has been involved in haggles with state insurance departments over rates...
...Nina was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in 1935 in Tryon, N.C., the sixth of eight children. Father was a handyman, Mother a Methodist minister. Both were musical, and Nina began taking classical piano lessons at seven. Bach soon became (and remains) her favorite: "There's always a place he's going and he gets there and he comes down gently. That's perfection." In 1953, after a year of study at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music (paid for by friends back home), she landed a $90-a-week job playing piano...
...born brawler and natural teller of war stories. Mailer gives us the coordinates of the enemy-the timid, shortsighted publishers who at first shrank from the novel's excoriating, charged treatment of Hollywood life. He tells of his anxieties and the state of his abused liver-which, if the laws of metaphor may be suspended briefly, he has worn as proudly as a Purple Heart. And Mailer never lets the reader forget that he is an important and dedicated writer constantly bent on making his prose as penetrating as his visions...