Word: doerr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work may be his most appealing, mainly because it is quirky and informal and the author leaves his moral fervor in the bat rack. He intersperses the season's important action with portraits of key personnel: the Yanks' Tommy Henrich, Jerry Coleman, Yogi Berra; the Sox's Bobby Doerr, Ellis Kinder, Johnny Pesky. While he does adequately by Boston, clearly his heart is in the Bronx. In his hagiography, the Yankees are a little more godlike. Perhaps they were...
...think the idea of the American Dream has vanished from these kids' minds," says Suzie Doerr, a teacher at Bedichek. "These kids think life is fancy-free." Hermelinda Garza Perez, a second-generation Mexican American, teaches eighth-graders. "Their goal is to get by, not to get better," says Perez. As a child, she went with her mother to her job as a maid. "My mother always said to me, 'I don't want you cleaning someone else's commode...
...Giamatti's father Valentine was there on sabbatical from the languages department at Mount Holyoke College. Though Italian enough to feel possessive of DiMaggio ("Yes, both of them; all three of them, as a matter of fact"), "Bart" was born in Boston. "I wanted to be (Second Baseman) Bobby Doerr, to tell you the truth." By wretched geography, he has been shackled for life to the Bosox, whose cap Giamatti has only this week put aside...
...John Doerr. On a clear day, Doerr can look down from his 35th-floor corner office in Embarcadero Center on the sailboats plying San Francisco Bay. Taking in the view may be the only truly restful thing that Doerr, 34, normally ever does. He has been a relentless overachiever since he joined the blue-chip San Francisco venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980. Three years later Doerr became one of five general partners (there are seven today). Among the companies that he has spotted for investment are Cypress Semiconductor, Sun Microsystems and Businessland, all Silicon Valley...
...Doerr has shown talent at that ever since his days at Rice University in Houston, where he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering. He started a computer-software company during his sophomore year. While picking up an M.B.A. at Harvard, Doerr worked 20 hours a week at Intel, the & semiconductor firm. When he has time, Doerr relaxes with his wife Ann in their fashionable Pacific Heights home, and he declares himself "more interested in making new technology successful than in the technology itself...