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...wonder. Birnbaum has been interested in things theatrical since his college days. After a stint with Margo Jones' Theater-in-the-Round in Dallas, he joined TIME in 1951 as contributing editor. Later, as a senior editor, he presided over the Music, Show Business and Cinema sections, among others. Once, while gathering material for a cover story on Dick Cavett, he temporarily took over the talk program, which became "the Jesse Birnbaum Show, with Jesse's guest, Amateur Magician Dick Cavett...
...entered Marian High School in September of 1987. Big, bad and brusing Bob Otolski was--and still in--the high school coach for the Knights. He graduated from Indiana Central and was somewhat of a standout as a guard there. He then did a brief four or five-month stint with the Washington Redskins as a specially team player before turning to coaching...
...Cronin, a lowkey Republican businessman, whose major claim to fame came from his intimate political association with outgoing Republican Congressman F. Bradford Morse. Morse's popularity was a well-known phenomenon in the District, and, while Cronin had himself served two terms as a state representative besides doing a stint on the Andover Board of Selectmen, he made no attempts to disguise his ties with Morse. Morse was Cronin's political meal ticket and Cronin felt no compunction over flaunting the fact. But despite Cronin's ties with his popular GOP predecessor, it appeared during the campaign and right...
...bare three hours' solo time as a pilot, and that was long ago, before he gave up flying in favor of racing sailboats. But his interest in planes goes back to childhood when he built models, devoured copies of The Aeroplane and Popular Aviation and, after a stint in a Canadian prep school, dreamed of joining the Royal Canadian Air Force. At 16, though, he suddenly needed glasses and went to Harvard instead. ("At the time I was crushed," Foote recalls.) Recently, though, his fondness for planes was a help in getting acquainted with Richard Bach, the free-spirited...
Kibbutz life remains attractive to most of its members: between 70% and 80% return to it when they finish their required military stint, and the kibbutz population has maintained a growth rate of 2% to 3% a year even when Israel as a whole was growing more slowly. The appeal of the collective seems to come partly from its stability. "We still do not have the evils of the city. We live with our doors open," says David Tal. Indeed, there are no courts, no police, no crime, and virtually nothing that can be called juvenile delinquency...