Word: sanford
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...longer tenable. That must have come as a considerable relief to Frist, who with his father had founded HCA in 1968. "Frist saw the family's name being tainted, and he couldn't take it anymore," says Kenneth Abramowitz, who follows the health-care industry for the Sanford C. Bernstein investment firm. But a high-ranking FBI official derided as "ludicrous" any notion that Scott's departure will end the government's probe of Columbia. Says he: "This is an investigation that is very much ongoing...
...NATION, April 28]. In the latest episode, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's fairy godfather, Bob Dole, gives his old friend a sweetheart loan (possibly from campaign contributions) that most Americans would be unable to give their own son or daughter. Mother Goose couldn't write a better fairy tale. SANFORD DU ROFF Tarzana, Calif...
...Woods, or anyone else, to say "I am Jackie Robinson." What Jack Roosevelt Robinson accomplished is chilling even to this day. This son of a Georgia sharecropper endured unspeakable indignities and taunts to become baseball's first black player. (Just last week officials in the small Florida town of Sanford issued an apology for their predecessors who forced Robinson off the field during a minor league game in 1946.) He won over hostile teammates, opponents and newsmen with his ferocity on the field and grace off it. In his 10 short years in the majors, he revolutionized base running...
...similar survey of the tie tacks or pinkie rings preferred by Washington's most powerful men. Surely you can find some way to define this remarkable woman's intelligence without resorting to jewelry. I'm a lot more interested in her brains than in her baubles. JILL WARREN LUCAS Sanford, North Carolina...
...DIED. SANFORD MEISNER, 91, master acting teacher; in Sherman Oaks, California. An original member of the seminal 1930s Group Theatre--which also nurtured teaching greats Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Robert Lewis--Meisner coached actors to interact convincingly and to project emotional believability. Among his many students: Gregory Peck, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, and directors Sidney Lumet and Sydney Pollack...