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...company for whom Robert Fletcher designed costumes in the AST's first season was a little-known young Canadian actor who played Antony in Julius Caesar and Ferdinand in The Tempest. His name was Christopher Plummer. The next year he portrayed Henry V both in Canada and Scotland--a stint that catapulted him to stardom, and a performance I have always regretted missing. For the past two decades Plummer has merited inclusion on any list of Plummer has merited inclusion on any list of the dozen finest actors in the English-speaking world. Like Guinness and (for a time) Brando...
...World War II. He left in 1946 to earn a master's degree in finance and economics at Chicago, but rejoined three years later to fight in Korea. Corson, who speaks four Chinese dialects, worked for U.S. and allied intelligence throughout Asia from 1954 to 1962. After a stint at the Pentagon, he was thinking about retirement when the call came in 1966 that changed his life. As Corson puts it: "The Marine Corps wanted me to go to Viet Nam. I went...
Hamlin made contacts of a much less serious nature during a one-year stint in Quincy House and he retains several fond memories. He says his advanced age did not bother him that much, though he was disturbed by what he terms "some immaturity...
Lezberg will bring a long career of teaching experience to her post in the Peace Corps: a summer teaching high-school students French and Mayan culture at Wellesley's "exploration' program, a stint as a Spanish instructor for teachers at Boston middle schools. and occasional substitute teaching in Spanish at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy...
...list of extracurricular activities two pages long, John includes a stint as local youth coordinator for the 1976 Udall for President a Campaign. The candidate's two-vote loss in a town primary kept the young pol from attending the Democratic national convention that year. In addition to his political involvements, John led what he calls "a double life" as a troublemaker--despite a good academic record--and waited for the Harvard admissions officers to discover they'd made a real mistake. After his first set of midterms, he "realized it wasn't as demanding as I'd thought...