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...Musketeers. A good boxer himself, he kept out of fights by negotiating agreements under which rival gangs would stay off Bryn Mawr Avenue, the Musketeers' turf. That testimony comes from his younger brother Frank, a Jesuit priest who is chairman of the physics and computer science department at Loyola College in Baltimore. One Christmas Eve Al, then nine, offered to prove to five-year-old Frank that there was no Santa Claus; he led his brother on a reconnaissance mission to watch their parents placing presents under the tree...
...dropped out of Stanford University with poor grades. He flunked out of Loyola University Law School. He did pass the California bar exam-on his second try. Then he became Governor Ronald Reagan's chief of staff in 1967 and did so well that his boss appointed him to the California Supreme Court. Now Reagan has named William P. Clark Jr., 49, Deputy Secretary of State, even though the appointee admits that his only firsthand experience for the job "was 72 hours in Santiago...
...witty and no-nonsense "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers." In real life, they are twin sisters, Esther Pauline ("Eppie") Lederer (alias Ann Landers) and Pauline Esther ("Popo") Phillips (Abigail Van Buren), together the most widely syndicated columnists in the world, with upwards of 1,000 newspapers apiece. Says Loyola (Chicago) University Psychologist Eugene Kennedy: "Their columns are the national mailbag. The advice they give is fundamental common sense, and no one has ever improved on that...
...linebacker at Loyola High School in Los Angeles, Woolway played on the 1975 prep varsity that not only won the toughest league in the area, but finished as the number-one rated high school team in the nation...
...white clown, who is really a Lutheran minister from Roseville, Mich. Both services and parades were among the highlights of a weeklong workshop on the use of clowning, mime, puppetry and dance in Christian worship and ministry that attracted some 350 people to the campus of New Orleans' Loyola University. More than 400 attended a second gathering earlier this month in Ithaca, N.Y. The participants spent their time learning how to juggle (concentration is more important than coordination), sew costumes and master the techniques of clown makeup (lots of powder after applying each color prevents smears). They also studied...