Word: sarasota
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Died. Nathan Handwerker, 83, founder of Nathan's Famous, the Coney Island hot-dog emporium; following a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Polish-born, Handwerker came to the U.S. in 1912 with $28 and much energy. He went to work in Manhattan as a delivery boy, moonlighting weekends at Feltman's, Coney Island birthplace of the hot dog. Encouraged by two singing waiters, Jimmy Durante and Eddie Cantor, Handwerker in 1916 took his savings of $300 and set up his own nickel hot-dog stand, slicing Feltman's price in half. The business grew into a multimillion...
Died. H.I. (for Haakon Ingolf) Romnes, 66, former board chairman of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; of leukemia; in Sarasota, Fla. Dubbed "the Mild Viking" for his Norwegian parentage and his quiet style of leadership, Romnes began his career as a phone installer, and as A T & T board chairman steered the giant corporation from $13 billion in revenues in 1967 to $18.4 billion...
...liberal Republican, Weicker has been harshly criticized by conservatives for his vigorous questioning of White House aides. One out of three letters he receives tells him, in so many words, to resign from the party. Just before Weicker prepared to leave for four days of sun and tennis in Sarasota, Fla. ("I have no modesty on the tennis courts"), he was assailed by a big Republican fund raiser, Gordon Reed. Replied Weicker: "One of the reasons I am sitting on that panel is so [Reed] can continue to make comments like that without having to worry about retribution...
Associate Professor of Sociology New College Sarasota...
...system is described in the current Journal of Popular Culture, an issue devoted chiefly to U.S. circuses, carnivals and fairs, and intended "to introduce the carnival to the social scientist." Three of the contributors have ties to the carnival or circus worlds: Sociologist Marcello Truzzi of New College in Sarasota, Fla., whose father was the juggler Massimiliano Truzzi; Sociologist Patrick Easto of Eastern Michigan University, whose mother was a carnival stripper; and Social Psychologist Theodore Dembroski of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, who was born into a carnival family and takes a job as a carnival worker, or "carnie," every...