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...Classroom, so easy for others, was denied me. To be one of those deserving ones, who are easily borne aloft to the Light, is not my destiny. I must work out my burden. My way must be the hard way, and so I proceeded to climb the stairs with my beloved Classmate and guide leading...
...experience. "I discovered that I was more a part of the Times and the Times was more a part of me than I realized." To his mind, that part involves the shirtsleeve aspect of journalism, for which Catledge feels so strong an affinity that it has survived his steady climb to executive rank...
Annie's incorrigible tendency to climb soapboxes has earned her a host of real-life enemies to match those who pursue her on the funny page. She has been castigated by the pulpit, educators, the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies. In 1956, an episode that seemed to glorify hoodlumism drew such a loud chorus of protest that some 30 newspapers suspended the strip. The high crime rate in Little Orphan Annie periodically produces other defectors...
From DC-3 to Concorde. Middle East can also boast of being the world's only airline to be run by an honest-to-Allah sheik. The man responsible for the line's rapid and unsubsidized climb is Najib Salim Alamuddin, 55, who inherited the title of sheik from a family long prominent in Lebanon's Druze sect, an Islamic offshoot founded in the llth century. Educated at the American University of Beirut, suave, sophisticated Sheik Alamuddin was running his own telecommunications company when he was asked to take over Middle East Airlines...
...young pup acts like the old dog too-he is already known in the trade as Flynn-Tin-Tin. But Sean has something going for him besides his moniker. He has an All-American body and a wild Irish charm. He seems born to be a Hollywood buccaneer and climb upon the rigging like his daddy used...