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...been an inescapable irritant in American politics, like a fly determined to become part of the ointment. He had first served as a state senate page at the age of 16, but he seemed to have few prospects then. He sold magazines from door to door. After a stint in the Army Air Force, he won a job as an assistant attorney general, then as a state legislator, always feisty, eager to speak his piece. Elected a circuit judge in 1953, he told the courthouse boys that he was going to run for Governor. Wallace was easily defeated...
Stanford's Patt, whose stop out included a stint as a partner in a management agency for recording artists, also claims to have acquired a business education on his own. Touring with Blues Singer Sunnyland Slim, he recalls, taught him about "money, Cadillacs, how to handle myself." When he came back to college, it was with a pragmatic sense of how to go about the career he had chosen: film production. Says Patt: "I learned in the street that if you want something...
...associate dean, a post Vorenberg assumed in February, he is concerned with long-term planning and curricular development. Vorenberg is also currently concluding a five-year stint as master of Dunster House...
...mound Birrell went 7 2/3 innings before giving way to Almeida who notched the save. The starter struck out eight, walked five, and did not allow an extra-base hit during his stint. Almeida yielded on hit in a little over an inning, that being a ninth-inning double to Harvard's Peter Bannish...
...father's business in Montpellier. Daniel Duchateau, 39, who died in the Shootout, was even more enigmatic. After serving a six-year term for armed robbery from 1966 to '72, he wrote a book about why he had become a criminal. A five-year army stint convinced him, wrote Duchateau, that money brings liberty. "It's nothing really, just little slips of paper, but I realized very quickly that it was everything." In the end, of course, he was right about those little slips of paper...