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...Michigan City waterfront jungle called "The Patch," he was the twelfth of 13 children. His father, a factory worker, was usually laid off half the year. "We had," understates Hatcher, "a very difficult time of it." Instead of surrendering to slum life, Hatcher went to Indiana University by dint of a church stipend, a small track scholarship and his willingness to wait on tables. After earning his bachelor's degree, he went to Indiana's Valparaiso University Law School, where he attended class from 8:30 to 3:30 and worked in a hospital from 4 to midnight...
...name is Sandy Dennis, and she couldn't care less whether you know it. As far as credits go, she is a major star at 30. Yet by dint of personal force and preference, she has thumbed her perky nose at glamour and the constraining star system. In 1963 and 1964, she won Tony awards for her first big Broadway roles, the sensitive social worker in A Thousand Clowns and the delectable mistress in Any Wednesday. For her next big success, the screen version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in which she played the frightened young...
What this adds up to, I think, is that the Volunteer can really be neither amateur nor professional. He has lost that flush of innocence, or amateurism, which makes one think that by dint of honest toil and a boundless faith in human perfectability one can change any individual; on the other hand, he is working at too low a level to have acquired the technician's confidence in his mastery of tools for shaping institutions...
...members, a demonstration or parade would be embarrassing; with little overt support, teach-ins would be poorly attended. So instead the Harvard Communists work as members of other organizations. They are inevitably among the hardest working, most vociferous members of non-Communist organizations, and often win respect simply by dint of compulsive industry. They also serve a major communicative function: by meeting together with other Boston Communists and reading reports to each other, they can keep abreast of the events in each area of the radical movement. Then when they report back to the non-Communist organization with which they...
...Advocate." Less gregarious than his younger brother, Bobby often broods in solitude at his Senate desk, sometimes leaves without trading the customary pleasantries. The more genial Teddy is generally well accepted and is working his way into the Senate "Establishment" by dint of such seemingly inconsequential actions as lingering in Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland's office one morning a few years ago to sip bourbon with him. "Teddy's more casual," says Fred Holborn, a White House aide under J.F.K. "Ask Teddy to put more bite into a speech, and he'll refuse, saying...