Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ferras says he knew he would be a violinist a year after he touched his first violin, at six, despite the fact that as a boy he fell on a broken bottle on the beach, deeply gashed his left hand in precisely the same place his father once had. "But I was lucky," says Violinist Ferras. "This time it cut no nerves...
Slim (5 ft. 11 in., 143 Ibs.) and supple, Gene Kotlarek first lashed on a pair of jumping skis at the age of four under the watchful eyes of his truck-driver father, George Kotlarek, himself a former U.S. champion. A freshman at the University of Minnesota's Duluth division, Gene practices two nights a week and on weekends with his father, still jumping at 46, and younger brothers Glenn, 17, and Wayne, 10, who compete in age-group meets. To develop strong leg and stomach muscles required for jumping, he does deep knee bends in his basement...
...bedtime about 10. Sometimes he varies the schedule by rising around 2 a.m., working a couple of hours, then going back to his mahogany bed and sleeping later than usual. "He is a man of most irregular work habits," says his Secretary of State, Cardinal Tardini. "The Holy Father seems to have a guardian angel who wakes him up and tells him it's time to go to work...
...Cussing. Canham is a gentle, scholarly newsman who started in the trade at the age of eight by taking news items over the telephone for his father, a country publisher in Lisbon, Me. He joined the 17-year-old Monitor after graduation from Bates College in 1925, became the Monitor's managing editor at 37, its editor in 1945. A Christian Scientist who neither smokes, drinks nor cusses, Canham is one of journalism's busiest men. Besides editing the Monitor, he writes a column on international affairs, moderates a weekly TV program in Boston called Starring the Editors...
That was 22 years ago. Since then, would-be Princetonian Knopf went to college (Union) and became vice president (sales) of the firm in which his father is board chairman and his mother president. But he still knows some rich people, and he still wants to make it on his own. Last week Publishers' Row was startled by the news that a major new publishing firm was being founded by Pat Knopf and two big bookmen-Hiram Haydn, 51, for the past three years editor in chief of Random House, and Simon Michael Bessie...