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...were also six stepchildren, was raised by his father Roy, who was a lawyer as well as a minister, and a Democrat in an era when most blacks were Lincoln Republicans. During World War II, Harold did a three-year stint in the Army Air Corps and emerged with sergeant's stripes. He attended Roosevelt College on the G.I. Bill and, though one of only some 20 blacks among 400 seniors, was voted president of his class. He graduated from Northwestern Law School in 1952. When his father died the following year, Harold inherited his law practice and stake...
...Streep was named Best Actress for her dazzling performance as the doomed survivor of the Nazi camps in Sophie's Choice. Ben Kingsley won the Best Actor award for his uncanny portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi; Louis Gossett Jr. was chosen Best Supporting Actor for his hard-nosed drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman; and Jessica Lange, who was also running in the Best Actress category for Frances, was picked as Best Supporting Actress for playing the girl who gets the girl, Dustin Hoffman, in Tootsie...
...kind of kid who got A's on tests and F's in behavior and took equal pride in both-can make him appear undisciplined. In reality, he brings to his work the same dogged determination that carried him from a "sad rat" freshman to a "sharp sergeant" at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Raised by a strict Baptist mother in El Paso, Donaldson returned to attend Western Texas College. After graduate school at the University of Southern California and a stint in the Army, he came back to Texas. In 1959 he got a job with...
Though Eugene dearly, if undemonstratively, loves his family, he announces the members of the household like coming attractions he would rather not see. Mother (Elizabeth Franz) is an obsessive homemaker with the bawl of a staff sergeant. She inhales imminent doom with every breath. When Eugene asks why he cannot buy a half-pound of butter in the morning instead of a quarter-pound each in the a.m. and p.m., his mother retorts with fatalistic logic: "Suppose the house burned down this afternoon...
Cambridge Police Sergeant Joseph McSweeney said last night that the train's wheels apparently did not touch the woman, adding that she did not come into contact with the track's electrified third rail. She was found under the train's second...