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...smitten with show business about as soon as he could take a few dance steps. At three, Sammy hit the Orpheum Circuit in a flashy family act, has stuck with his father and uncle ever since-they still open his act with some nostalgic tap routines. During a burlesque stint, when he should have been in school, Sammy was pinched in an A.S.P.C.C. raid. Then came the skinny years of the Depression, a wartime stint in Special Services, the postwar years when the act kept getting stranded between guest engagements. Today, signed up to star...
Borodin did a stint of work in Moscow, but seeing a prominent commissar throw himself under a passing bus helped Borodin decide that life in the south would be healthier than in the capital, and he went to Baku. Borodin might still be a Baku bureaucrat if, in 1945, the government had not summoned him to go overseas and study penicillin production. Shuttling back and forth between Russia, Britain and the U.S., Borodin forgot his resolution to stay clear of the Moscow meat grinder. His chief, Andrei Tretyakov, seemed to be on the skids.* Scientists in all fields were being...
Opposing Ward on the mound will be Jack Johnston, who led the Terrier staff two years ago. He set the team down in order in a one inning relief stint against Suffolk...
Critical Ball Game. Last month Seattle started to worry again. On his winter leave Conductor Katims did a grueling. 17-con-cert guest stint with the Houston Symphony. Word leaked out that Houston, which was in the market for a permanent conductor (TIME, Feb. 7), made Katims an offer-$30,000 a year, far more than he gets in Seattle (about $18,000). Seattle prepared itself to be conductorless once more...
...studied journalism in New York University night school, tried reporting for New York's Daily Mirror, went back to selling shoes, later became general merchandise manager for Chicago's Goldblatt Brothers department store. In 1936 he began selling whisky for Seagram & Sons, and after a stint with several other distillers went to Beam as sales vice president...