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White would have achieved eminence in any case, but the path he took ambled through a series of happy circumstances. The sixth child of a well-to-do piano manufacturer, he grew up in Mount Vernon, a tree-lined suburb of New York City. He went to Cornell, where he gladly surrendered his given names, Elwyn Brooks, for the moniker Andy (after Andrew D. White, the university's first president). After graduation, White held jobs in journalism and advertising without finding an employer who could make good use of his whimsical temperament and lapidary prose...
...brush as an art student fresh out of the Marines and resumed in earnest about eight years ago. Though he finds painting "more serene" than acting, and has more than 100 oil landscapes and portraits to his credit, Hackman has neither the desire nor the time to mount a gallery show. He has completed three about-to-be-released films, Target, Twice in a Lifetime and Power, and will soon begin Hoosiers, about high school basketball in Indiana. With all that performing, Hackman prefers to keep his painterly pursuits private. Says he: "Maybe I'm afraid that if I start...
...Crimson failed to mount any scoring threat in the second half until adjuster John Rowe wrestled the ball away from a Bridgton receiver to give the offense posession near midfield...
Even as emergency aid poured into the Mexican capital from the U.S. and elsewhere, the cries for help beneath the rubble grew weaker and the death toll continued to mount. So did complaints among Mexicans and some foreign relief workers that the government of President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado had handled the crisis less than adequately...
Born on July 11, 1899, White grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. The product of a typical middle-class childhood, he referred to himself in high school as a "writing fool...