Word: tex
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Safire entered Syracuse University on scholarship, but two years later a summer job turned him into a 19-year-old dropout. Through his brother Leonard, Safire was hired as legman for journalistic impresario Tex McCrary, then writing a personality column for the New York Herald Tribune, acting as host on a radio show and dabbling in G.O.P. politics. Safire soon decided that he "could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels." Safire spent most of the 1950s working for the dynamic, yet erratic McCrary, goading him into public relations, which Safire...
...conference, 45 Chinese citizens studying at schools in 22 states met with U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), lawyers and aides to U.S. Reps. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.), Joe Barton (R-Tex.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-56 (D-Mass...