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...says, "I never rode a horse unless they paid me." But in America, anything is possible. So to honor his work in such films as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and his own favorite, Lonely Are the Brave, the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City inducted Kirk Douglas, 67, as its newest celluloid cowpoke, joining the legendary likes of John Wayne. The Duke might have been amused. After Douglas portrayed the eccentric painter Vincent Van Gogh. Wayne asked him, "Why did you play that weak, sniveling character?" Replied Douglas: "I'm an actor." Warned the Duke: "Yeah, well...
...gave the paper's Washington bureau, and Washington Reporters Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie are highly respected. Baseball Writer Peter Gammons may be that sport's most influential daily chronicler. Among other assets: Columnist Ellen Goodman, Humorist Diane White, Music Critic Richard Dyer and Editorial Writer Kirk Scharfenberg...
SENTENCED. Mary Evans, 27, Tennessee lawyer who helped her client, Convicted Felon William Timothy Kirk, escape from the Brushy Mountain state penitentiary in March 1983 and was captured with him 139 days later in Florida; to three years in prison; in Clinton, Tenn...
...50th anniversary of it college system, Yale is not resting on its residential laurels. A report released this year by their faculty council addresses the issue of improving residential college life. The report recommends an increase in the number of formal courses offered at the colleges, says Frank W.K. Kirk, master of Trumball College. Currently each college offers about six courses a year. "Teaching on the college level is a nice way to integrate the social and academic functions of the college, it also lends a greater sense of identify to each of the colleges," Kirk says, adding that...
...state requirements. Yet last year the former registrar told the FBI that one student received a B.A. in engineering after submitting a short résumé, and a real estate agent got a juris doctorate by taking a legal assistant's examination. Southland Founder James Kirk, who says he no longer runs the 700-student institution, freely admits, "I had no interest as an educator. It was a good way to make money...