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JAMES MICHAEL CURLEY'S second-youngest son came to my grandfather's wake. You may remember the caricature of this son in The Last Hurrah, showing up in white tie at his father's campagn headquarters the night the old man lost his last election, breezing in from a night on the town to find that his father had died. The fictional son was quite the bon vivant a happy-go lucky playboy without a care in the world. The real life model never quite lived up to his fictional counterpart...
...Ohio business machine salesman, Bowen went through Denison University on scholarship and was the first member of his family to graduate from college. He did his graduate work in economics at Princeton on scholarship, and in 1965, at 31, became the second-youngest full professor in the school's modern history. As an economist, he has specialized in studies of concrete, practical concerns; his best-known book is an analysis of the financial problems of the performing arts in the U.S. Youthful enough to pass for a junior instructor, Bowen, who is married...
...fans wherever he performed. When Oakland opened a series against the Minnesota Twins with Blue on the mound, the gate was 23,334; next night, with Blue on the bench, it was 11,147. Between victories Nos. 17 and 18, Vida took time out to become the second-youngest pitcher in history to win the All-Star Game. Then it was on to Detroit to No. 19 before a crowd of 53,565. Afterward, the fans thronged outside the clubhouse chanting "We want Vida! We want Vida...
Cooper was one of the three men added to the final list of 23, He is the second-youngest man still under consideration, and while he is not a widely-known figure, he is held in high regard by the Yale Economics Department...
...Churchill family has had more than its share of trouble and tragedy. Only his youngest sister Mary, now 46, who is married to Britain's Ambassador-designate to France Christopher Soames and is the mother of five children, has managed to live a normal life. Randolph's second-youngest sister, Marigold died in infancy in 1921. His sister Sarah, three years his junior, is afflicted by the "deep belief that I was an accident" and has frequently been arrested for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. His eldest sister Diana, who was married for 25 years to onetime Tory Defense...