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After my great-uncle survived Auschwitz and came to America in the late 1940s, he got a job selling shoes in Braintree, Mass. He had been a lawyer in Germany, and when the owner of the shoe shop saw that his new salesman was able and educated, he offered him the position of store manager. But my great-uncle declined. He said it was enough for him to be in America and to be able to sell shoes. And so he did, until the day he died...
...letters from college admissions offices were sent out last week, I couldn't help recalling the late R. Hugh ("Pat") Uhlmann, a Dartmouth man of antic temperament, who used to tout a daring idea for taking the pressure off any college that is regularly forced to turn away the progeny of many prosperous and influential citizens: Auction off the last 10 places in the class...
DIED. GARY MORTON, 74, film and TV producer and husband of the late Lucille Ball; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Morton was a popular stand-up comic when he met Ball on a blind date. He went on to produce The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, among others. The couple were married nearly 28 years...
...next 20 years, he racked up a formidable criminal record: his seven outstanding Interpol warrants include armed robbery and other crimes. In the '70s he became affiliated with the Yugoslav authorities, and by the mid '80s he was back in Belgrade, working for the state security service. In the late '80s he became the leader of a Belgrade soccer team's fan club, a group that was transformed into his paramilitary unit...
When I was "Little Johnny Hendricks," singing in Toledo, Ohio, in the late 1930s, JOE WILLIAMS was attracting attention in Chicago, where he had come up as a small child from "Go North" Georgia, as Joseph Goreed. Though our paths didn't cross till later, each of us knew what the other was doing. After the war he started sitting in with the Count Basie septet, and Basie hired him as a vocalist. Every Day made Joe an instant star. His voice was a magnificent instrument. It had everything--range, tone, vibrancy, sweetness--it was just mind boggling. He turned...