Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Once you become mayor, it's hard to study how to become one," explained Lee Robinson, mayor of Macon...
...Robinson's case, he attended the conference two years ago when he was first elected, and returned yesterday to offer advice from his own experience...
...best lessons Robinson learned, he said, came from the 1987 mayors' conference when Mayor Jerry Abramson of Louisville, Ky., told him about "Mayor's night in, mayor's night out." This technique involves scheduling times for citizens to come to City Hall and for the mayor to go out into the community on a regular basis...
...Robinson said of the seminar, "The timing's excellent because it allowed me, at a time when I was very receptive, to receive timely and pertinent information about how to be a mayor...
...Hall landed a job that provided a strange foretaste of his current success: as Alan Thicke's sidekick on the much ballyhooed, short-lived Carson challenger, Thicke of the Night. Thicke remembers the young comic fondly. "I think I recognized that if anyone was going to be the Jackie Robinson of late night, it was Arsenio," he says. After the show flopped, says Thicke, "I know writers who removed my name from their resumes. Arsenio remained a friend in failure, and you learn to appreciate those people in a year like that...