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...Pulliam Chair in History until just before Dan's arrival on campus. "If I had known he was a Pulliam," says Ted Katula, the athletic director who was Quayle's golf coach, "that would have impressed me. Pulliams are big here. I didn't learn he was one till he was running for Congress." Yet Katula was the member of the university staff Quayle saw the most. Little was made of Quayle's being a Pulliam because few people knew it. He did not bring the subject up. In his experience, family ties were as much a source of division...
...year-old Steinberg but sudden fatigue. Thomas, not yet 25, was standing in the wings when the maestro walked offstage just before the intermission and told his assistant to get out there and finish the concert. Thomas proceeded to take the orchestra through a Starer concerto and Till Eulenspiegel without a slip, and the critics flipped. By 1972 he was the Boston's principal guest conductor and had his own orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic...
...19th century, when immigrant Boers -- the Dutch word for farmers -- feuded with their English overlords in the Cape Colony. When Britain forbade slavery, the Boers' Great Trek began. Kipling caught their spirit: "His neighbours' smoke shall vex his eyes, their voices break his rest./ He shall go forth till south is north, sullen and dispossessed...
...CAUTION HORSES (RCA). The Junkies are still laying down their special blend of Thorazine country -- slow, dreamy and spiritual -- but the novelty's worn dime-thin. Not so fresh as last year's exemplary debut, but the band still has mystique to burn and mystery to spare. Wait till next year...
...Siberian dwarf hamster; fewer still would deem it a privilege to pay a bundle for the opportunity. Yet that was the choice of Laura Farnsworth, an IBM marketing representative from Dallas, who shelled out $2,400 plus air fare last summer to spend three weeks trudging from dusk till dawn in the harsh steppes of Soviet Asia. Supervised by biologist Katherine Wynne-Edwards, Farnsworth, along with other similarly hardy amateurs, not only saw a remote part of the Soviet Union but also had the satisfaction of making a contribution to science -- in this case, collecting data about an animal that...