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...legs, he worked his way through law school and was employed as a tax clerk when a doctor fitted him with artificial legs that added 2 ft. to his natural 3 ft. 8 in. After working with amputees during World War II and at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt, he started Abilities, Inc., a nonprofit job-placement group, in 1952. Three groups founded by Viscardi merged in 1991 to create the National Center for Disability Services...
...From the tumultuous reception accorded it by critics and public alike, the monumental "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" promises to remain for all posterity the classic biography of Columbus. At all events, it justifies the inscription on one of the Professor's most cherished possessions--a photograph of Franklin Roosevelt which he autographed "To my friend Sam Morison--Columbus Junior...
...Alistair Beagle in Peanuts. But his role as a TV host was a sideline for the British journalist who knew everyone and remembered everything. As a young Cambridge grad in the U.S., he became instant pals with Charlie Chaplin and H.L. Mencken. He got his first glimpse of Franklin Roosevelt as the paraplegic President was hauled from his car, and he happened to be near Robert Kennedy the night of his assassination. All these encounters, and thousands more, he related in a weekly BBC chat series, Letter from America, that mesmerized millions of listeners on five continents...
...Alistair Beagle in Peanuts. But his role as a TV host was a sideline for the British journalist who knew everyone and remembered everything. As a young Cambridge grad in the U.S., he became instant pals with Charlie Chaplin and H.L. Mencken. He got his first glimpse of Franklin Roosevelt as the paraplegic President was hauled from his car, and he happened to be near Robert Kennedy the night of his assassination. All these encounters, and thousands more, he related in a weekly BBC chat series, Letter from America, that mesmerized millions of listeners on five continents...
Should co-captain No. 1 Jantzen plow through the competition as he is favored to do, he will become just the second Harvard wrestler in history to win an NCAA championship and the first since John Harkness ’38 won it during the Roosevelt...