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...Force Academy and a former test pilot, won the Distinguished Flying Cross for piloting a C-130 cargo plane through bad weather and enemy fire to resupply a beleaguered U.S. outpost in Vietnam. Both of Robert's grandfathers won that decoration in World War II. James Browne, whose son Michael, 33, perished in the Cobra's backseat, also believes the Marines' dependence on Bell has thwarted justice. "I am very disappointed in how the Marines have treated my family...
Hamlet's old man may have set the standard for stage parents when he swore his son to a career of revenge, and screwed up the boy's life royally. Until recently, the definition of a stage parent was he or she who attempted to satisfy personal ambitions by directing the course of one's progeny, usually toward hell. Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall was driven mad by his father's desire to play vicarious baseball. For Gypsy Rose Lee's obsessed mother, everything was coming up roses "for you and for me," but mostly...
Anne Rice's characters exhibit a curious understanding of the term bloodline, but the novelist has been a model, and mortal, parent. So says her son CHRIS RICE, who's entering the hair-raising world of publishing himself. Rice is among the "Hot Pop 30" profiled in Interview magazine's upcoming 30th anniversary issue, all of whom were captured by photographer-du-jour David LaChapelle. Rice began writing when Anne was hospitalized last December after being found to have diabetes. "I had to get my mind off Mom," he says. He showed his novel to his father, who told...
After a hunt that lasted over 20 years and spanned hundreds of miles, Harvard researchers have re-discovered the long-lost manuscripts of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the second son of composer Johann Sebastian Bach...
Vernon, the son of Jewish immigrants to New York City from Russia, studied at the College of the City of New York, where he earned his B.A. cum laude in 1933. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University...