Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alaska was growing, and so was Mike Stepovich's awareness of it. In 1950 he ran for a seat in the territorial legislature. He was elected to three terms. It was in the legislature, under the tutelage of an old friend and longtime Republican bigwig named John Butrovich Jr. ("Butro and Stepo") that Mike sank himself deep into Alaska's problems...
Step by Step. Mike soon quit his job to set up private practice in a cubicle on Cushman Street. He liked the law but being the friendly sort, found it hard to apply himself seriously. He lost his papers on the way to court to try his first case; he seemed forever to be playing golf or shooting the breeze with friends on Cushman Street while Mat stayed home and cared for an increasing crop of children-now the famous "eight little 'itches" (five months to nine years old), who are part of a Step-by-Step plan that...
...returned to Portland to court a hearty, good-looking social worker named Matilda Baricevich. "Mat" knew that marriage to Mike meant frozen bliss in the tundra. "I rather looked forward to it," she says, "even though I had the usual idea of eternal snow and sled dogs cuddling up to you in a cabin for warmth." Mike went on to Fairbanks in the fall of 1947, took his bar exams. Before the year was out, he was appointed city attorney and had settled down with Mat in a four-bedroom frame house...
...were 17 candidates and a dozen others being urged by individuals or groups," says he. "I saw this young lawyer in Fairbanks. Just 37 at the time. He never applied for the job. The more I saw him, the more I knew I was going to recommend him." Steering Mike Stepovich from behind were two powerful Republicans: Territorial Senator Butrovich and Fairbanks Publisher (News-Miner) Bill Snedden...
Time to Shine. "You know," says Mike Stepovich, "a fellow doesn't quite realize, right after his election or appointment to such a job, just how much it means. People say hello, everything's gay and fine. And then comes that time-the time when you know you're going to have to stop just showing your teeth and start producing." Mike started producing right after his inauguration in June 1957. Says Matilda, who calls him "Mali" (Slavic for "little boy"): "When we were living in Fairbanks and Mali was practicing law, the jacket pocket on every...