Word: careers
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...addition to these 300 books, Chinmoy has completed 8500 poems, 2000 songs, and over 130,000 paintings during his career, the Chinmoy Centre stated last week...
...proctored exams at Harvard, usually in Memorial Hall. But while everyone has heard his low-voiced chatter and chuckled at his never-changing exam demeanor, few know very much about him. What does Mr. Test do after the last blue book is in? How can you make a career out of proctoring? Does Mr. Test have full-time job? Is he a CIA agent in disguise? No one knows for sure...
...Harvard duties because, as he explains it, "I like to remain a little mysterious." He will do nothing that would jeopardize his image as a living legend, including consent to an interview. He fears that interviewers would be mainly concerned with odd experiences that he has had during his career as a proctor, and stories about funny things that happen in exams ignore what is really humorous about them. "I am the comic element in these exams," he explains. Some day he will reveal all, Edwards says, but in the meantime, he wants to remain an enigma...
DIED. Jack Oakie, 74, wisecracking comedian best known for his parody of Mussolini in Chaplin's The Great Dictator; of complications of an aortic aneurysm; in Los Angeles. Abandoning a Wall Street career, Oakie joined the chorus of George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly in 1922 and, after several years on the vaudeville circuit, went to Hollywood, where his waggish ways and round, jovial face won him more than a hundred supporting roles. Playing a happy-go-lucky buffoon, he worked in such films as Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields, The Affairs of Annabel with Lucille...
...driving, fiercely ambitious admiral will make the most of his new job. He is one of the armed services' new breed of activist intellectuals who pride themselves on their grasp of nonmilitary matters: politics, economics, psychology. Born in Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb, Turner decided on a naval career instead of joining his father in real estate. After graduating 25th in his class at Annapolis (Jimmy Carter finished 59th out of 820 in the same class of'46), he studied at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship. He served on a destroyer during the Korean War; from...