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...Board found a way to reward his efforts. In 1963, Delaware County was reapportioned, and given a new seat in the state legislature. The Board selected Harris as the Republican candidate, and in Delaware County, that is synonymous with election to office. His two-year stint (1964-66) at $10,800 a year in Harrisburg was the only salaried public office he has held...
Elliott appeared live last night on WNAC-TV to perform her final stint. By Friday, all ten finalists will have completed their four-minute live sportscasts...
...bungling, mild-mannered science teacher, Robinson Peepers, became a hit in 1952. After the show folded three years later, Cox was unable to shake his Milquetoast stereotype. His slow slide was only slightly interrupted by a short-lived TV situation comedy, minor movie roles, commercials and a stint as a game-show panelist...
...book is a little mine of information on the rising English middle class. Whatever else the public school was, it was a method of producing a ruling middle class, and Tom Brown's school days are obviously a preliminary to a commission in the army, a three year stint at Oxbridge, or a spot secure in the Church of England hierarchy. And whatever the rest of Thomas Hughes's sentiments, that struck him as being the right way for things...
Perhaps the most telling part of the book is Rentzel's description of his three-year stint at Oklahoma University under the famed coach Charles B. ("Bud") Wilkinson, now serving as Chris Schenkel's sidekick on ABC Television. Rentzel describes one practice during his sophomore season in August 1962, when Wilkinson ordered a full-pad scrimmage in 100 degree heat. According to Rentzel, two players lost all the salt in their bodies and coiled up in agony, while another player went wild and attacked Wilkinson with his fists. At the end of practice, says Rentzel, the field "was covered with...