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Back in Harlem, Belafonte worked as a handyman in tenement houses, toyed with the idea of becoming either a professional basketball player or a social worker, finally drifted into the theater by accident. (The occasion: he got two tickets to an American Negro Theater production as a tip for repairing Venetian blinds.) He worked as a stagehand at the theater, appeared in a few minor roles. Soon after that, he enrolled in the Dramatic Workshop at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, where his classmates included Marlon Brando and Tony Curtis. Harry also persuaded Marguerite to marry...
...constitution France's National Assembly can be as irresponsible as of old-but not so powerful. In the plodding. 70-minute speech in which he outlined his government's plans, 47-year-old Premier Debre showed no ambition to be anything more than De Gaulle's handyman. "The presidency of General de Gaulle," intoned Debre, "is today the first of our national necessities." And when he demanded a vote of confidence-under the new constitution he did not have to do so-he got a handsome majority (453 to 56, with 29 abstentions...
...stoma and stomach than in him. He refused to be a human guinea pig. But in 1941 at New York Hospital, Drs. Harold G. Wolff and Stewart Wolf made a deal: on their payroll, Tom would spend his mornings as a subject of medical study, his afternoons as a handyman around the laboratory. Peppery about his right of privacy, Tom made the doctors promise not to publish his last name anywhere, or a recognizable picture outside a medical journal...
...work-for-Wayne-Morse law. Last week all Oregon learned what the Senator's neighbors in Eugene have known for two months: that fiery Democratic (and ex-Republican) Liberal Morse had fired a part-time gardener, horse handler and 25-year friend because the 65-year-old handyman dared defend Dwight Eisenhower to Morse's face...
Morse and Handyman DeForest ("Dee") Pickert were bound for a campaign rally in Oregon City last October when a third friend remarked to Republican Pickert: "Wayne really gave your old pal Ike a good working over last night." Snapped Pickert: "Ike has forgot more about war than the common man will ever know." At that point Wayne Morse blew with a fury old friends in Oregon and the U.S. Capitol are wary of. Soon after Morse sent to Employee Pickert a check for $49.25 in wages and a parting explanation: "I am very sorry that it became necessary...