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Craig was one of 102 children raised by her foster parents, and two years after graduating from high school became the first one of her siblings to attend college. Her foster father supported the family by working as a janitor at a school for the handicapped...
...members of the Lampoon stole a fence traditionally used as a backdrop for a photo of Yale's football captain. Substituting a janitor for the Eli captain, the Lampy editors took a mock version of the picture before returning the stolen booty...
...Summer Times Editor: Maia "9 to 5" Harris Hackensack and Berkshires Editor: Jon "Pleeeese write a Confi Picce" Moses Kahn Social Secretary: Shari "I am going swimming" Rudavsky Classical Music Editor: Jim "Whaaaaaat" Schwartz Postal Director: Jim "ten more minutes" Solomon Communication Editor: Bruce "Take this job and..." Kluckhohn Janitor: Brentwood "aka Beej aka BJ" Martin Lunch at Grendels Editor: Dahlia "think conservative" Weinman Four-Color Advertising Manager: Mark "Please, take my business card" Diker Cadillac Editor: Mark "pimpmobile" Segel East Asian Editor: Tai "Moo Bernstein" Hah Hospital Administrator: Pat "Can I show you my gallbladder?" Sorrento Food Truck Operator...
Javits' father, a onetime Talmudic scholar from the Ukraine, worked as a janitor. He was also a ward heeler for the Tammany Hall Democratic machine, an unsavory sideline that later helped drive the son to the Republicans. After working his way through Columbia University and New York University School of Law, Jack Javits joined a law firm started by his older brother Ben. During World War II he received a commission with the Army's chemical-warfare department, emerging with the rank of lieutenant colonel and an offer from the impotent Manhattan G.O.P. to run for Congress in 1946 from...
...somebody can just tell me how to catch up," Kennedy complained one < night to his staff. "Let's find somebody--anybody, I don't care if it's the janitor, if he knows how." Kennedy fidgeted, ran his hand through his hair, grimaced at the news that it would take $40 billion and ten years to get a man on the moon--and then he might be greeted by a Soviet cosmonaut. But frontiers are not conquered by cost accountants. Kennedy left the meeting and went into the Oval Office. In a few minutes his aide Ted Sorensen came...