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...staff at the Leader - including his wife, also a journalist with the paper - to continue that work. A staffer who was waiting at the hospital during his surgery told me a group of her colleagues had decided to go back to the office before they knew whether their mentor and friend would survive. "We have to get the newspaper out," she said. I can't think of a more fitting tribute...
...thanks to the friendships he cultivated with such movie stars as Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Clark Gable and Gary Cooper. In particular, his association with Fairbanks got Fleming into the studios, affording the young director not only considerable clout but also an education as to how to tolerate, befriend and mentor major movie stars. It's a skill that was put to good use in working with Judy Garland in Oz and Gable in Gone With the Wind, and Sragow reconstructs the ways Fleming was able to extract defining performances from several A-list actors. While Fleming often deflected the spotlight...
...Wagers, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School who described Melton as a mentor, said she was impressed that Melton had done so well in a popular survey...
...Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is a longtime family friend and mentor...
...interesting protégé-and-mentor team: Summers is the deep, intellectual economist who can be brusque if not arrogant. Geithner is a smoother, harder-to-read operator who gets along well with everyone. Of the two, Summers is the one to watch. He is expected to do for the economy what strong-minded and ambitious National Security Advisers like Henry Kissinger have done for foreign policy: plan it, set it and control...