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...feel of it at last, but when he came to Brahm's Lullaby, he froze. "Marge!" he begged, and she appeared from the kitchen and placed his hands. "You've got it now," she said. "You sure?" he asked, and then played it fine. Albert Tesch, the town plumber, came in on the organ next and offered a sweet Carolina Moon and If I Loved You. Then in the course of an hour and a quarter they all returned in various combinations and played other tunes. The audience was effusive with its applause...
Rubin's troubles began last year after he volunteered to defend Russell Sanborn, 26, a plumber accused of fatally stabbing an 18-year-old woman. On the morning of the trial, with witnesses waiting and jury selection about to begin, Rubin asked to be excused from the case. Carefully mincing words in order to shield confidential conversations with his client, he says, he intimated to Judge Sidney Shapiro that Sanborn planned to lie on the stand. Sanborn, recalls Rubin, had "told me what he wanted to do, what he wanted to say, and what he wanted...
...just a simple plumbing problem. One of your pipes is clogged, and it needs to be cleaned out before flow can be restored. The only catch is that the pipe you're concerned with happens to be your coronary artery, and if you hang around until the plumber shows up, chances are you'll end up dead...
...coronary arteries that were announced this month in Washington will undoubtedly have an important impact on cardiovascular mortality during the next few years. But the magnitude of the problem cannot be underestimated, as heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the United States. As one plumber put it while writing out an itemized bill, "there's no such, thing as a simple plumbing problem." The Harvard Medical School Doctors performing heart surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Seven years ago, on his 41st birthday, Philip Glass was driving a New York City taxicab. From the age of 17 he had worked as a hotel night clerk, an airport baggage loader, a crane operator in a steel mill, a furniture mover and a plumber, all the while pursuing his real vocation: composer. Glass, however, was not hoping to make a big score with a pop song or a Broadway show. Rather, he was that least salable commodity, a revolutionary avant- gardist...