Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signed. "I learned that Frank Kush was attempting to cover up the fact that he hit Kevin Rutledge," says Miller. "I could not allow our athletes and coaches to be further intimidated.' Meanwhile, Rutledge's family has been the target of threats and violence Last month his father's insurance agency in Phoenix was torched. Later, the family was told by an anonymous phone caller, "If your boys go out on the football field Friday night, they're liable to get blown up." Kevin's brother Robert, a Gilbert High School defensive back, has played...
Joshua Nkomo, 62, is generally regarded as the father of black nationalism in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, having risen from trade union organizer to leader of the first independence movement, in the mid-1950s. Last week the burly, jovial guerrilla leader presided over another historic turn in London, where his ZAPU party directed much of the Patriotic Front political strategy that led to the acceptance of the constitution. Shortly after his fateful meeting with Lord Carrington, Nkomo discussed the possibility of a settlement with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William Me Whirter. Excerpts...
...mother, Liz, played by Jo Henderson with skill, zest and daring, is rather like the father in "Da, " a character who follows you right out of the theater...
Though it is Mickey's first Broadway show, it is not his first time in burlesque His mother was a showgirl, his father was a vaudeville comic. Mickey, who was born Joe Yule Jr., was telling jokes onstage almost before he could talk. "The jokes are like old friends," he says. "My father was a burlesque comic, and now I am too. It's a complete circle. I am my father's son. I am my father." Neither mother nor father did very well in burlesque, however, and money problems led to divorce. Mickey's mother...
DIED. Elizabeth Bishop, 68, poet whose 1955 Poems: North and South-A Cold Spring won a Pulitzer Prize; of a stroke; in Boston. Bishop's childhood was tragic: her father died before she was one, and her mother was confined to an insane asylum. As an undergraduate at Vassar in the early 1930s, Bishop befriended future Novelist Mary McCarthy and established Poet Marianne Moore. After graduation, she began a life of wandering that included stays in Mexico, Europe, North Africa and Brazil, her home for 18 years. Precise observations of her adopted lands, reflected in a personal but distanced...