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...following year published the first issue of The Wine Advocate, which was mailed speculatively to 6,000 wine lovers in the Baltimore-Washington area. About 600 readers wrote in to subscribe -- enough to finance a second issue. By 1984 The Wine Advocate had so outclassed its rivals that Parker quit his job as a lawyer to become a full-time wine critic...
...show] was always exciting, and it was usually different," says Morton, who quit the revue this summer after nine years of performing in theaters around the country, including the Harvard Square movie house...
...power with his overwhelming victory over Vrdolyak in April's mayoral election. So thorough was the drubbing that many of Vrdolyak's aldermanic supporters defected to Washington's camp. Vrdolyak, who presided over the tattered remnants of Daley's machine as chairman of the Cook County Democratic central committee, quit the party and became a Republican...
...have a future in the humor-column dodge, but don't quit your job at the shoe factory till the check clears. Still interested? Try completing the column from this collection that begins "I've been wondering for a long time where all the chicken a la king went." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker writer and syndicated columnist (weekly in 200 newspapers), handed himself this chiller a couple of years ago. Clearly he had used up all his easy material about Ronald Reagan and how everyone hates mimes. He had to throw in every surefire giggle from Nehru jackets...
...include the case of Paul Starr, 38, who rose quickly at Harvard, then was denied tenure after winning a 1984 Pulitzer Prize, the first ever awarded a sociologist. Grumbled a former departmental chairman of such popular repute: "If I want to be a free-lance journalist, then I should quit Harvard and go be a free-lance journalist...