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Most important, she became a student of Uta Hagen's and later a member of the Actors Studio, soaking up the Method, which requires that each character should be built motive by motive from the inside. She became the Studio's virtual salutatorian. She could fidget, whine and hesitate like no other actress before her. Her pauses were unmatched. When she played the spinsterish heroine in Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke, she made an off-Broadway hit out of a Broadway flop, but she also kept the audience in their seats till after midnight. Director Jose Quintero...
...thus turned mainly on personality. Shadegg is recognized as one of the nation's most astute political managers, but his cold, seemingly superior personality offended many voters. Mecham, a slight man with a folksy twang, came across better. Born on a Utah farm, he was a high school salutatorian, a World War II P-51 pilot who was shot down over Germany and held prisoner, a self-made businessman who built up a 100-employee Pontiac dealership in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale. He teaches in a Mormon Sunday school, has seven children...
...BMOC. Graduating as salutatorian of his class, he argued against Gene's suggestion that he work his way through Georgia Tech. Herman got his own way: studying law at the University of Georgia as his father had done. With a car and more spending money than the average student, Herman became a big man on campus. He got Bs with little book-cracking, loafed, played poker, dated coeds. Remembers one: "He was pretty forward, but he was good company." Pledged to Sigma Nu, his father's fraternity, Herman helped guide a revolt by smaller fraternities against...
Class Unity. In Marion County, Ore., at eighth-grade graduation Howard Wilson was valedictorian, salutatorian, class historian, had been the only member of his class nearly all his school career...
...Goodness! Nineteen-twenty-eight! [Chuckle.] Why, its half a century since I left college. I played football-and I was class salutatorian. They used to call me 'Big Bill.' I suppose [chuckle] all heavy Williams get called that [chuckle]. Big Bill Edwards-Big Bill Thompson [chuckle, chuckle...