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When at age 17 he ventured west from Mount Vernon, N.Y., to seek his fortune, R. Lad Handelman learned quickly that there was more money in diving than in tending a diver's airline, as he had been doing. Says he: "I figured I was on the wrong end of the hose." He became a diver and spent a decade combing the seabed off California for abalone. Today, at 39, Handelman is again topside: this time as president of Oceaneering International, Inc., a Houston-based company that in 6½ years has become the largest publicly owned firm...
...Yiddish: "Der bum iz du [The bum is here]." All the same, Cutler was ordained at 24 and served a Conservative congregation in Stamford, Conn., before becoming a reviewer for a film trade paper. He soon switched to hawking talent, managing comics like Slappy White and Stanley Myron Handelman...
...saucer-sized diamond and her apparent fury over her husband Richard Burton's failure to win an Oscar for his performance in Anne of the Thousand Days. "Who is this?" asked Marvin. "She's grown up. I thought it was Shirley Temple Black." Comic Stanley Myron Handelman smirked: "She's got great elocution." But there was loud approval of her announcement of Midnight Cowboy as the best picture of the year...
...simply adequate. All of them achieve reasonably well-defined characterizations; none of them goes any farther than that. The same is true of the Count, Brian McGunigle, and his family--Ken Hurwitz, Barbara Menaker, Sharone Sandifer, and Steven Sylvester--and of the other inhabitants of the servants' quarters--Alberta Handelman, Robert Rosenheck, Tom Geoghegan, John Hiatt, and Nathan Taylor...
Dave Cairns will be a slight underdog in the mile, when he faces Frank Efinger and Joe Albanese, and the Crimson's Dave Gregory will have plenty of opposition in the form of George Dole, Dan Strickler, and Bill Handelman in the two-mile event. Yale's Mike Stanley and Rollie Garofalo are heavy favorites in the 1000, although Jim Downey could break up this combination...