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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what he wanted to do in life. Teammates remember him as a prankster who liked to throw bags of water from hotel rooms during road trips. When a broken elbow cost Pickens his athletic scholarship, he switched to Oklahoma State for his sophomore year. While there, he married Lynn O'Brien, his high school sweetheart. She was 17, he 20. "My mother says she never saw anyone grow up so fast," Pickens recalls. After two years on the dean's list, he graduated with a degree in geology and joined Phillips Petroleum, where his father then worked as a lease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Times for T. Boone Pickens | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...that his bosses refused to heed. After four years of watching his frustration, his wife half-jokingly asked one day, "If you hate it so much, why don't you just quit?" Returning to his office, Pickens gave notice, packed up and drove away. "It was the best advice Lynn ever gave me," he says of the episode, "though she was shocked when I told her I had taken it." Using the $1,300 he received in severance pay from Phillips' profit- $ sharing plan, Pickens bought a 1955 Ford station wagon large enough to hold his exploration gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Times for T. Boone Pickens | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

These new Sox, Barrett and Nicholas and Ojeda: what are they if not reincarnations of those you cheered in '75, Doyle and Lynn and Tiant, and of those your parents cheered, Doerr and Williams and Parnell...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: The Color Green | 2/20/1985 | See Source »

Both Flaherty and Graham supported Keverian in his year-long battle to wrest the Speaker's gavel from Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn), who ruled the 160-member body for almost a decade...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Keverian Opens Doors for Cantabs | 1/16/1985 | See Source »

...Tommy McGee helped his home city of Lynn tremendously," says Richard J. Doherty, Harvard's Director of State Relations, adding. "While Flaherty isn't the Speaker, those benefits could well come Cambridge...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Keverian Opens Doors for Cantabs | 1/16/1985 | See Source »

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