Word: dean
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Vito Marzullo had the shock of his life last week. The former alderman, 91, awoke one morning to find his own obituary on the front page of the Chicago Tribune. There was consolation in the encomiums by fellow pols, who hailed Marzullo as the "dean" of Windy City politics. The embarrassed Tribune, still renowned for its DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN headline in 1948, launched an investigation of the gaffe. It turned out that Marzullo's brother-in-law, who lived in the same building, had passed away...
Like Betty Wright, most Washington wives are invisible until their principal gets in trouble. Pat Nixon held the title for most stoic wife until Maureen Dean gave an Oscar-winning performance during her husband's Watergate testimony, sitting primly behind him, blond hair pulled back, holding the Nancy Reagan gaze before there was a Nancy Reagan gaze. Former Attorney General John Mitchell's wife Martha took to telephoning reporters and was forcibly sedated. Rita Jenrette, whose husband John was convicted for taking bribes in Abscam, used her 15 minutes of celebrity to pose in Playboy, reveal that she and John...
Champion, a top aide to Gov. Michael S. Dukakis who also chaired the search committee which selected Thornburgh two years ago, said the committee would make its official recommendation for the directorship to departing Dean Graham T. Allison '62 by the end of the term...
...Dean Epps: When a Crimson reporter asked Brown University Dean of Student Life John M. Robinson to describe Dean of Brown College Sheila Blumstein's job, he said it was similar to the role of Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 at Harvard. When asked about his own job moments later, Robinson said it was most similar to Harvard's Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. However, he added quickly, "I hope I'm not like Epps...
...Assistant Professor of English Allen H. Reddick, discussing a meeting between the English Department's junior faculty, President Derek C. Bok and Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence...