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...gets upset when people call me Mr. Ferraro," says Gerry's husband John Zaccaro, 51, "but I get a kick out of it." That reaction is in character. After 24 years of marriage, the Brooklyn-born Zaccaro has adapted to a self-effacing role as the proud and supportive husband of a very modern woman...
...color, informed by an angry toughness and an exceptionally strong sense of rhythm, showed the influence of Matisse and Picasso as well as Jackson Pollock, her husband from 1945 until his death in 1956; after a long illness; in New York City. When they met in 1936, the Brooklyn-born Krasner was the better credentialed of the two and helped move Pollock toward the avantgarde. She continued to paint in a mutually respectful, noncompetitive partnership with him during the years of poverty and productivity on their farm in East Hampton, N.Y. Krasner finally saw her work attract recognition and respect...
Mitchell Kapor, 33, founder of Lotus Development, a computer software company. A Brooklyn-born math whiz, Kapor graduated from Yale at 20, then dabbled as a disc jockey, an instructor in Transcendental Meditation and a mental-hospital counselor. Little commanded his attention until he impulsively traded in his stereo system for an Apple II computer. Within a few months, he wrote two computer programs that create charts and graphs for businesses and sold them to a software distributor for $1.2 million. With royalties from the programs and backing from venture capitalists, he founded Lotus Development...
...next president of NBC News has never been a reporter. A Brooklyn-born graduate of Columbia University, Gross man has spent most of his career in advertising. From 1962 to 1966 he was vice president for advertising at NBC, after which he formed his own New York City ad agency. He calls his nonjournalistic background "a serious lack," and candidly admits, "I have a lot to learn...
...because the early astronauts were of the test-pilot school and a little closer to American hero status then he ever dreamed of being, the Brooklyn-born Hoffman says he "didn't relate to the space program personally." The astronaut recalls that he never talked about his ambition, keeping it secret even from his parents "because it seemed sort of frivolous." Nevertheless, he adds, "I was dead serious about...