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When I first graduated from college, I couldn't decide whether to become a magazine writer or a TV writer. I quickly settled upon unemployed writer, until Martha Stewart hired me to type up gardening tips. The things a man will do just to get close to that siren...
...Louis Armstrong, jazz musician --Lucille Ball, TV star --The Beatles, rock musicians --Marlon Brando, actor --Coco Chanel, designer --Charlie Chaplin, comic genius --Le Corbusier, architect --Bob Dylan, folk musician --T.S. Eliot, poet --Aretha Franklin, soul musician --Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer --Jim Henson, puppeteer and creator of TV's Muppets --James Joyce, novelist --Pablo Picasso, artist --Rodgers & Hammerstein, Broadway showmen --Bart Simpson, cartoon character --Frank Sinatra, singer --Steven Spielberg, moviemaker --Igor Stravinsky, classical musician --Oprah Winfrey, TV talk-show host...
...career, Ulrich got a master's in English from Simmons College in 1971, switched to history as a teaching assistant at the University of New Hampshire, and received her Ph.D in 1980, specializing in colonial history. And then, following her second book, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based On Her Diary, 1785-1812, Ulrich won a Pulitzer Prize...
...changed her life so much, in fact, that Ulrich spent eight years researching and writing the story of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife who wrote of the 810 births she delivered in a 27-year "18th-century datebook." Much of the diary was dry and hard to understand at first, Ulrich says, but eventually she began to learn Ballard's voice...
...Young K. Lee '99 says hisblock of 14 has come to be called "The Up withPeople Blocking Group" and "The AdmissionsFacebook Blocking Group" because they are suchtight friends to this day. Lee and his blockmatesfrequently eat dinner together, and last week theywere planning to take one last trip--to Martha'sVineyard--as a group...