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...philosophy to Detroit, but he didn't have much of a team to work with. The players he brought in were misfits elsewhere, but they fit perfectly in Motown. Dumars picked up big, Afroed Ben Wallace from the Magic and watched him develop into a rebounding machine. Point guard Chauncey Billups, dumped by five different teams, became the finals...
...Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows, otherwise known as Ralph and Alice Kramden... lived in that dingy two-room apartment on Chauncey Street... and their best friends were already their upstairs neighbors, Ed and Trixie Norton (Art Carney and Joyce Randolph). Unlike most other sitcom couples of the '50s, the Honeymooners were not middle class but the working poor. Ralph earned $62 a week driving a bus; Norton worked, as he liked to say, as an engineer of subterranean sanitation-in the sewer system ... Ralph was even louder, brasher and more abrasive [then] ... Alice was also louder and more argumentative...
...says to Khyentse Norbu with a slight hint of reproach. "I can't figure out why it's taking me so many days to get back." The director pats him softly on the back. "I don't know what to say to him anymore," he confides. "He's like Chauncey Gardner, the Peter Sellers character in Being There." Later that night, when it finally does come time for the apple man to leave, he gives half of his salary back to the rinpoche, asking that it be saved so he can have a proper cremation when he dies...
DIED. HENRY CHAUNCEY, 97, founder of the Educational Testing Service who engineered the rise of standardized testing in college admissions; in Shelburne, Vt. As assistant dean at Harvard in the 1930s, he objected to the elitist system that admitted only prep-school students. With Harvard president James Bryant Conant, he promoted the meritocratic but previously little-used SAT, now taken by 2 million students a year...
Married three times, Chauncey is survived by his first wife, Elizabeth Phalen; his third wife, Janet; eight children; 14 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren...