Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing, that is, except the fact that he was a fraud-one of the remarkably successful members of that remarkable band of men who are drawn, for various reasons, into becoming "doctors" without benefit of medical school...
...Join or Not to Join. One cause of competition is publishers. Except for the fact that both went to Harvard, they have virtually nothing in common. The Post-Dispatch's Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 54, grandson of the founder, is urbane, aristocratic, international-minded and remote. Globe Publisher Richard H. Amberg, 55, who was brought in from Syracuse by Sam Newhouse when he bought the paper in 1955, is hard driving, domineering, locally oriented and a joiner. He is reputed, in fact, to have joined more civic organizations than any other publisher in the U.S., and he is constantly supporting...
...Landers? In Viet Nam? But there she was, getting the tour and interviewing General Westmoreland. Except for Westmoreland, however, Ann avoided the brass. She headed instead for the hospitals and spent her ten days in Viet Nam talking to the wounded. "I saw 2,100 boys and talked to every one of them," she says. "Since I've been back, I've made 305 long-distance calls to wives, parents and sweethearts of guys who gave me a telephone number and asked me to call someone back home. The trip was worth every minute...
...favorite family rendezvous is the Wild Goose II, Wayne's 130-ft. converted Navy minesweeper. The Goose is a substitute for riding, which he has had to give up on doctor's orders, except while filming. He still goes after marlin off Baja California, hunts deer in the Sierras. His other prey and preoccupation is Communist expansion. He was a prime mover of the old anti-left Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American I deals. Today, his cause is Viet Nam. "Once you go over there," he says, "you won't be middle...
...performances from his cast and by catching the spirit of stucco swank that passes for class in some down-at-heels sections of Los Angeles. As a faithful copy of Hollywood's old hard-boiled style of detective fiction, the film is not likely to engender any emotion except nostalgia. But if it has the look and the sound of an antique, it also has some of its value...