Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basketball Star Calvin Murphy doesn't wear spangled tutus, but he twirls a mean baton. "I was bullied into it," says the Houston Rockets' guard. "All six of my mother's sisters were twirlers, and they thought it was the thing for me to do." Murphy, 29, began twirling when he was five and later performed with his home-town high school band in Norwalk, Conn. "There was some teasing, but I wasn't bothered much," he says. According to Murphy, "baton twirling is harder than basketball. Con- centration is the key word and you have...
...after World War II, and the English educational system has begun its shift from the old-boy network to the creation of a meritocracy. Like D.H. Lawrence's characters in Sons and Lovers, Colin's father is abraded by a life in the coal pits, and his mother by poverty and sickness, but there seems to be no limit to what the boy can achieve...
...narrower voting power than class B and is traded on the American Stock Exchange. *Well, richer, Rosenthal is said to earn $120,000; Sulzberger got $210,000, Sulzberger got $210,000 last year, plus a $75,000 bonus. The family trust, part of which he inherits when his mother dies, received $2.7 million in Times common stock dividends last year...
...office seekers solicit his support, and audiences of Elks and securities analysts are eager to receive his wisdom. Yet the man who sits at the top of one of the world's most powerful newspapers was, to put it gently, a late bloomer. Mild dyslexia inherited from his mother was only part of his problem. "He was the most adorable, attractive boy," says she. "He was also a lazy little...
Remarried that year to the former Carol Fox Fuhrman (they had a daughter, Cynthia, in 1964, and Punch adopted his wife's daughter Cathy), Sulzberger now divides off-duty hours between his Fifth Avenue apartment and a modern, eleven-room cypress-and-glass house on his mother's 300-acre estate in suburban Stamford, Conn. Both residences are furnished in what one disapproving family member calls "Howard Johnson decorator stuff." Another upgrades it to "Bloomingdale's pleasant." Sulzberger drinks vodka on the rocks and eats hamburgers at his favorite restaurant, Manhattan's 21 Club...