Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JULIUS SUMNER MILLER...
...half ago, the little boy was timorous, overattached to his mother, and the victim of two badgering sisters. Now, say academy staffers, he is "quite a tiger." (A few days before socking his father, he had flailed away at a sister.) The transformation is typical of changes wrought by Sumner ("Mike") Burg, an unpretentious man whose lack of professional credentials has not kept him from winning the respect of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists. Using his remarkable rapport with insecure children and adults, Mike builds their self-confidence by teaching them to use their bodies more effectively in individual and team sports...
Meanwhile, Sumner Redstone. loyal alumnus that he is, was getting ready to do his little bit as he once more rehearsed his speech, while his wife struggled into the purple velvet knickers in which she would greet all those personal friends, friends from Newton and Brookline and Needham Heights that had been thoughtfully given a chance to see Mr. Redstone at his absolutely finest hour...
...Sumner Redstone to know? After all, these were Harvard men, weren't they? And, having that speech on his mind, he could hardly be expected to notice the J-V gang that had collected up on the second level of the lobby where they were grabbing whole bottles of the stuff from under the eyes of the pleading hostesses...
...then Sumner Redstone cleared his throat, only too aware of the Paramount brass awaiting their introductions and the present Harvard administrators and his wife's eager friends certainly having the time of their dreary old Bostonian lives, and Sumner began his speech, only, to his horror, to meet with drunken laughter and then suddenly all he could see was some kid in a back row waving an empty bottle...