Word: lancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard's artwork. In the back there is a small swimming pool, beside which stand a 6-ft. metal robot, a souvenir from one of her TV specials, and a stone statue of a naked maiden-wearing a wig and sunglasses. Out front is a 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer. One of the ugliest cars ever to come out of Detroit, it is nonetheless a treasure to her: "I like cars that look like real cars I could identify when...
...Actor James Stacy, 39, the former co-star of the television series Lancer, was a touching figure throughout a court battle in Los Angeles. Stacy's arm and leg had been amputated after a drunken driver sideswiped his motorcycle in 1973, at the same time killing Stacy's passenger. Insisted his lawyer, Irving H. Green: "Stacy would have been able to command a million dollars a movie had his career been allowed to develop." Basing its decision on a 1953 California statute that persons who knowingly sell liquor to someone who is "obviously intoxicated" can be held liable...
Richard Smith '75 is a free-lancer who writes for the Real Paper and will work on The Washington Post this summer...
...Karl, who is about 20 years older than his wife, the reasons for writing the book seem to have been more complex. For one thing, he was not just any starving free-lancer. He'd been a journalist since 1948 and had worked for Newsweek for 11 years, eventually becoming Los Angeles bureau chief. As he says himself, he "had a front-row seat on some of the most fantastic things that have happened." When the civil rights battles were raging in Selma, Birmingham and Oxford, he was there. When Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy...
Maggie Scarf's life has fallen into place very neatly--a Nieman fellow and well-known free lancer, she has published articles regularly in The New York Times Magazine, and has published several books. Yet with all this behind her, Scarf does not attribute her journalistic fortunes solely to talent or luck. Rather, she feels they are a direct result of her "hanging in" ability, of her tenacity...