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...however, when he faced something he had never before attempted: writing a television script. After turning out eight hefty novels and several plays, Wouk found that adapting The Winds of War to the small screen was something he could learn only by doing. Not even his five-year stint of writing radio gags for Comedian Fred Allen in the 1930s prepared him for the task, except that then, as now, he was writing for someone else. "I've come full circle, once again collaborating with someone more sophisticated, more professional than I am in terms of this medium...
Adelman grew up in Chicago, the son of an attorney, and graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa. He went on to get a master's degree and Ph.D. from Georgetown University under the tutelage of then Professor Jeane Kirkpatrick. His Ph.D. thesis was based on a three-year stint in Zaïre, where his wife was a public health specialist for the Agency for International Development. In 1976 and '77 Adelman worked as a special assistant to then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his political mentor. Adelman served on Reagan's transition team, then returned...
Thomsen, whose alumni experience includes a stint working for Harvard Magazine, also voiced interest in "bringing the alumni back to the college, so they could see what college life is like today...
...Ever since he was a youngster in England, Clive Sinclair, 42, has had big thoughts about little things. At twelve, he built small mechanical calculators. At 22, after a brief stint as a science writer and editor specializing in home electronics, Sinclair and his wife Anne set up a mail order house selling transistors and later kits for miniradios no bigger than match boxes. In the 1970s he made one of the earliest pocket calculators with advanced mathematical functions, designed a pioneering, inexpensive digital wristwatch, and introduced a tiny TV with a 2-in. screen. Ahead of their time, none...
Wilfred Figueroa, a butcher from the Bronx, recently spent what he called "his first and only day" as Santa overlooking Rockefeller Center, soliciting donations for the Volunteers of America. The stint was a favor for a friend who couldn't do it that day. Figueroa explains, as he sits in costume ringing a bell while early holiday shoppers walk by. Doing this is fun, though it's bit cold," he says. "But this is something people should do at least once." He notes, however, that there are some restrictions Santas have to abide by. "I tried to catch a smoke...