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...Elected fer a life term the marshals lead the senior class committee in planning Commencement week activities and in organizing alumni events in later years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jacobson, Johnson Elected First Marshals of College | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...Valley Girl, that is. If she's from a fairly well-to-do family, and between the ages of 13 and 17, chances are she is. If her passions are shopping, popularity, pigging out on junk food and piling on cosmetics, the answer is probably "fer shurr." If she is almost unintelligible, the verdict can only be: "Totally." Particularly if she pronounces the word "Toe-dully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: How Toe-dully Max Is Their Valley | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...Secretary Donald Hovde demanded the resignation of all five CHA commissioners, including the chairman, powerful Realtor Charles Swibel, one of the mayor's closest allies. Swibel, 55, was appointed to the board in 1956 by Mayor Richard Daley. Chicago Political Analyst Don Rose describes him as "a do-fer. As in 'What can I do fer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago Mayor Jayne Byrne: Getting Byrned | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Without resentment, he watches a generation of writers imitate his style and similes. Without vanity, he tries to fer ret out the reasons for his own success: "There are better plotters than I am, and much better idea men, but it doesn't seem to matter. When they write the scene, there is no magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Private Eye as Man off Letters | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...senator, for his part, thinks Dolan is a twerp. Weicker scoffs at smug predictions that the Republican victories of 1980 portend an era of extreme conservatism in America. He calls Dolan "wacky," even "repugnant," and recalls that he was never very good as a go-fer anyway...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Hunters and Hunted | 2/26/1981 | See Source »

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