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Typical is Alan Biren, 23, of Roslyn, N.Y., a marketing major whose father is a salesman of printing equipment. He alternated study with selling groceries and toilet goods for Armour-Dial Inc., and he plans to join the company full time after graduation this June for about 20% more pay than a graduate of a traditional four-year college would receive. "The best thing I've learned," Biren says of his student career, "is how to communicate in selling." Scholars might grumble at such a judgment, but Biren's wife Sandra, a former Northeastern student herself, explains...
Clearly, Crichton is an ambitious man. But then he came of a very achievement-oriented family. His father was the busy executive editor of Advertising Age. Growing up in Roslyn, N.Y., Crichton recalls that he and his brother and two sisters had to take music lessons whether they liked them or not. By the time Crichton was 14, he was already 6 ft. 7 in. tall. Before long, the high school basketball coach was whipping star performances out of this less-than-natural athlete. Crichton worked hard, because, as he says facetiously, "I wanted to be kissed by the cheerleaders...
...show world has so far found room for only one Barbra Streisand-fortunately-a whole chorus of little girls from Brooklyn and neighboring boroughs have tried to stake out their own corner of the action and of the change. While most of them, including Streisand's half sister, Roslyn Kind, have got lost en route, three are belting along toward the top. The trio of neo-Streisands...
...LILLIAN MEYERS Roslyn Heights...
...Roslyn Heights...