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...keep my distance. Eventually, by some grace of God or Truth—I can’t say which—Barrett’s true colors were revealed to me. Being a beauty queen, it turned out, meant being a skilled ballerina. And it also meant winning scholarship money. I could understand these things. And I even started to like her accent. A beautiful friendship was born...
...summers were hot in western Illinois, but for Bob Nardelli they were also a month too short. "We didn't have a lot of money in those days," says Nardelli, who went to college on a football scholarship and had to start training in August. "I only had two months to work. You had to have jobs that paid well." His solution? "I worked road construction. One year we laid concrete highways. Next summer I worked asphalt." Nardelli's road-crew summers toughened the soles of his feet and taught him a lesson he would never forget: take the most...
Sports gave Reagan a chance to get an education. He won a scholarship that paid half his $180 annual tuition at tiny Eureka College; he washed dishes to pay for his meals. Reagan had hardly arrived when the college's new president tried to cut back the faculty, so Reagan helped organize a student strike. In the process he developed his taste for audiences and his talent for oratory. "I discovered that night that an audience had a feel to it," he said of this first speech, "[and] that audience and I were together. When I came to actually presenting...
...Reassembling an old musical requires a mix of showmanship and scholarship - a paleontologist's digging and Poirot's powers of inference. "Did they use this harmony, or did they mean it to be that harmony?" said Rob Fisher. "I agonize over this, because I want the score to sound exactly as it did originally." No reclamation project was as daunting as that of "St. Louis Woman," the 1946 Arlen-Johnny Mercer musical revived in 1998. "There was no score," Fisher said, "just scraps of material." Ace orchestrators Ralph Burns and Luther Henderson re-created - and, for the overture and dance...
After graduation, Frank went to Berlin for 9 months on a rotary scholarship and upon his return worked for The Wall Street Journal as a banking reporter...