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...numbers and allowed to bring only what they could carry, they were herded into "assembly centers" at fairgrounds and race tracks stinking of manure and animals. Finally, they were transported to ten barely habitable camps for the duration of World War II. Mabel Ota, now 64, was sent to Poston, Ariz. She would, after the war, become the first Asian school principal in Los Angeles, but would spend her life believing that the camp's poor diet and worse medical care caused her father's death, and her daughter to be brain-damaged at birth...
...largest dinner in White House history was also a once-in-a-lifetime test for White House Social Secretary Gretchen Poston. Presidential aides had worked up a guest list that included, in addition to the Egyptian and Israeli delegations, past or potential political supporters of Jimmy Carter (politics is never far from the mind of a White House aide), Arab and Jewish leaders in the U.S., business and labor moguls, congressional leaders and members of the press corps. Poston stayed up all night Sunday working out the seating arrangements at the 134 tables. Secretaries were frantically typing the 15-page...
...Carter's top speechwriter; the latest raise put his gross up to $45,000. Says one former Carter staffer: "That is quite a salary to pay a speechwriter for a President who throws away prepared texts and ad-libs." Among Rosalynn Carter's aides, Social Secretary Gretchen Poston, 44, and Personal Assistant Madeline MacBean, 40, each earn $42,800-a bit plush for such fringe jobs...
Died. Theodore Roosevelt Augustus Major Poston, 67, reporter for more than 40 years and one of the first black newsmen to cover general stories for a major New York daily; after a long illness; in Brooklyn, N.Y. Ted Poston worked as a dining-car waiter and freelance writer in Europe before joining the staff of the New York Amsterdam News and then the New York Post, where his byline appeared for 33 years. His first big stories were exclusive interviews with Governor Huey Long of Louisiana and Wendell Willkie; other assignments included Thomas E. Dewey's raids...
...Gene Hackman, Julie Harris, Goldie Hawn, Dustin Hoffman, Marsha Hunt, James Earl Jones, Quincy Jones, Elia Kazan, Sally Kellerman, Gene Kelly, Eartha Kitt, Burt Lancaster, Tom Lehrer, Alan Jay Lerner, Shirley MacLaine, Karl Maiden, Shelly Manne, Fredric March, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Vera Miles, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Tom Poston, Janice Rule, Barbara Rush, Robert Ryan, Eva Marie Saint, Artie Shaw, Tom Smothers, Sonny & Cher, Rod Steiger, Mario Thomas, Lily Tomlin, Robert Vaughn, Jon Voight, Eli Wallach, Ruth Warrick, Dennis Weaver, Raquel Welch, Gene Wilder...