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...better than Fogle. In the first chaotic minutes, he picked up Dennis Hall, who had fallen into the swift-running current, and threw him to the safety of a raised conveyor belt. "He saved my life right there," says Hall. Later, Fogle risked his own life driving a coal scooper into a cataract to rescue miner Mark Popernack, who was stranded on the other side. It is Fogle who is acknowledged to have kept his crew focused, adamantly refusing to let them give in to despair. If anyone epitomized their fierce solidarity, which Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker captured...
MTVU VJs have to be hip. They asked me to make up a soundtrack for my college years—one song for each year—and talk about what I had done outside of class. Trying to sound cool, I talked about my sometime job as a scooper at Herrell’s ice cream shop. The body language of Wendy, my interviewer, indicated she didn’t quite share my enthusiasm for frozen treats. The final test to assess my coolness quotient was to talk about a college event and pick a video to go along...
...perpetual Career Day intended to help him better understand his constituents, Graham began sampling various jobs in 1974 while a Florida state legislator. Since then, he has spent a day a month working such jobs as teacher, Winn-Dixie bag boy, construction worker (see left) and horse-stable pooper scooper ("I kept the ring clear, so that people weren't odoriferously impacted," he reports). For his gig as a US Airways steward, Graham is boning up on his safety speech and his mixed drinks. "Of course, we'll be encouraging everyone to drink orange juice," he says...
...seems that every day, I discover some new activity I cannot do. On Sunday night, I braved the stereotypes of labyrinthian corridors and found myself in Mather House for dinner. To my surprise, there was real ice cream being served. I happily approached the gallon container, swept up the scooper, dug in and screamed. We don't all scream for ice cream...
...slow blues-lyrics-meets-Motown-rhythms tune followed with the rather humourous lyrics, "If you leave me, take your dog with you... and you pooper scooper too... scoop you way back to your mama's house." Diddley then joked, "If I was in Vegas, I'd have to sing it like this" and slipped into a witty Sinatra imitation singing "I'm calling it quits, no more Kibbles and Bits..." Blues with a sense of humor...