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...years and five months that Ford was in office. But he does have a story to tell, and he starts in the beginning--watching Nixon's resignation with his three children whom he had recently "abandoned" when he and his wife separated. He is babysitting because his wife, Norma, is out on a date with Ben Wadleigh--husband of Wendy Wadleigh, who is in turn having an affair with...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fact, Fiction and Ford In New Updike Novel | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

...officials ruled that a last minute Harvard substitution, which Brown Coach Norma Taylor protested, was illegal. The ruling forced the Crimson to forfit the contested match, giving Brown the 5-4 for win weeks after the two schools played...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tennis Teams Face Big League Matches Over Weekend | 4/24/1992 | See Source »

...depths of his own troubled and lonely childhood, which was spent being shuttled between relatives in Houston. During his lectures, he spins out his story -- always with a smile -- recounting Southern-gothic tales of abuse, alcoholism and incest as examples of dysfunctional family behavior. There is Bradshaw's mother Norma, now 77, "a really good woman," he says, who became pregnant at 17 and married an alcoholic who abandoned her and their three children when Bradshaw, the middle child, was 10. She revered her own workaholic father as a saint, though Bradshaw is convinced that his grandfather violated his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Father Of The Child Within: JOHN BRADSHAW | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

...people who worked on Alice's campaign are dedicated to the end," said campaign manager Norma Weinberg, as sticker-adorned volunteers trooped through headquarters. "It makes you feel that grassroots politics works...

Author: By Helen B. Eisenberg, | Title: Wolf Celebrates Expected Win | 11/6/1991 | See Source »

...think especially in Eliot House, no one dresses like Lana," says Norma Jean Johnson '91, one of Wong's roommates. "She's really known for her black cowboy boots and her completely outrageous stockings--stripes, all designs, tie-dye, polka dots, all kinds of lace stockings--green, red, white, cream...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Luck and the World Smile Upon Her | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

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