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Larry graduated from high school with less-than-stellar grades, but with the dream of being on radio. Instead of going to college, he took a job as a mail clerk with the United Parcel Service, delivering packages to radio studios in New York. By chance, he met a broadcaster who encouraged him to go down to Miami, where the radio industry was flourishing and looking for new talent...
Nationwide attention turned to colleges and universities as well. Many states, including Massachusetts, instituted loyalty oaths for teachers, in which faculty swore to defend and protect the U.S. Constitution. State Rep. Paul A. McCarthy, D-Somerville, and Superior Court Clerk Thomas Dorgan proposed a series of bills geared toward limiting the perceived threat of communists on campuses, including one in 1950 calling for the removal of communist teachers...
...year for delivering airplane parts and keeping track of blueprints at a Boeing jet plant in Long Beach, Calif. She was relieved to keep her job through several rounds of layoffs. But as the ranks thinned, she lost her seniority edge and ended up as a clerk making $44,000 a year with no possibility of overtime. "I cried for a month," says Harris, a single parent with a 13-year-old son. "You do more with fewer people. They push and push." She is struggling with her mortgage, clipping grocery coupons and living in fear of losing...
APPOINTED. ELENA KAGAN, 42, as first woman dean of Harvard Law School; in Cambridge, Mass. A teacher at Harvard since 1999, Kagan also served as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and as a White House aide to President Bill Clinton...
...award-winning actor; of undetermined causes; at his home in Los Angeles. Kids knew him as the Other Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street, while adult TV viewers remember him best as the wimpy assistant football coach on Evening Shade. He won the Tony for his portrayal of a dying clerk in the 1990 musical Grand Hotel...