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...four children in a family in which there 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...
Graduating from Radcliffe in 1933, Tuchman went to work at the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), a liberal organization which included members from all the countries rimming the Pacific. After a one-year stint in New York, Tuchman transferred to the organization's Tokyo branch, where she helped prepare an economic handbook of the Pacific. "The Japanese militarist/fascist movement was getting very hot and IPR wanted to encourage the liberal Japanese who were still holding on," the historian recalls. The situation looked bleak, however, and in 1935. Tuchman came home--via the trans-Siberian rail-road...
Nevertheless, expert dialogue sustains the novel. Sample the glib openness of Parlabane, whose career has included a bout as a gay, sado-masochistic academic (at Princeton, no less), a stint as a drug trafficker in Greece, and time done in a monastery. Still wearing his monk's habit, he has come back to the university to sponge off his former colleagues, and, of course, to write the modern Proust. Davies blends in Parlabane's speech the erstwhile academic, mincing clergyman, mincing homosexual, and streetwise manipulator...
When Gray's stint began, personal obstacles mirrored the professional ones; he moved into primitive quarters because of a housing shortage, and his wife had to face the adjustment to a country where women spend their lives covered from head to toe in several layers of black fabric. They were still getting their bearings when a prince, a special friend of the king's needed treatment for an ulcer. His high status and the awkward timing made the doctor's visit a test case for the entire hospital. Dr. Hugh Compton, the hospital's director of medical affairs, told...
...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 KRLD, the Dallas radio affiliate of CBS. All three TV networks initially rejected him for lack of newspaper experience; but after he reported from 1961 to 1967 for the respected WTOP in Washington, he joined...