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...hardly a new role for Harvard's Warburg Professor of Economics ... He has become an all-purpose critic in the U.S. and beyond, jousting with as many demons as a latter-day Vishnu, the many-armed Hindu god of a thousand names ... The foundations for Galbraith's current fame-or notoriety-were laid a decade ago with publication of [his book] The Affluent Society ... With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector-housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare-it established clear guideposts for both the New Frontier and the Great...
DIED. Robert Sterling, 88, hunky actor in low-profile 1940s MGM movies who shot to national fame as a ghost, below, with co-stars Anne Jeffreys, his off- and onscreen wife, and Leo G. Carroll, on the hugely popular 1950s TV sitcom Topper; in Brentwood, Calif. Sterling played George Kerby, who, with wife Marion, dies in a skiing accident, then returns to his former home where the spectral couple end up coaching new occupant Cosmo Topper--a cranky banker and the only person who can see the Kerbys--on how to enjoy life...
...Athletics Director, a post he retained until his retirement in 2001.Cleary has also received multiple other honors, including being picked as U.S. Hockey Player of the Decade for 1956-1966, named to the NCAA Ice Hockey 50th Anniversary team, and inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame and the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.He was offered positions on professional hockey teams at his graduation, but chose instead to continue as an amateur while at the same time running the insurance business he started in 1968 and continued to head throughout his time coaching at Harvard.He lives in Auburndale...
...about the future of American democracy. His inspirational earlier book, "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," was a bestseller. In a BookExpo crowd of political types (Pat Buchanan, Arianna Huffington, Terry McAuliffe, and the like), Obama enjoyed triple the buzz. The celebrated keynote speaker's fame should take this more policy-oriented book...
...world?s apparel. His biography notes: "Baldrige worked during his boyhood as a ranch hand and earned several awards as a professional team roper on the rodeo circuit. He was a Professional Rodeo Man of the Year in 1980 and was installed in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in 1984. Baldrige once appeared on the television game show To Tell the Truth pretending to be rodeo tie-down roping champion Dean Oliver." The cowboy businessman and the Harlem civil rights worker - each man was the embodiment of their party's best strains...