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Holmes has had a keen interest in sports since his student days at Mount Vernon (N. Y.) High School, alma mater of such athletes as baseball's Ken Singleton and basketball's Ray Williams and Gus Williams. Holmes was an outfielder on the school's baseball team, but early on ("I was good field, no hit") he decided that journalism might be better suited to his talents. After graduation from City College of New York and the Michele Clark Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists, he got a job as a reporter at the Yonkers (N. Y.) Herald...
After the speech, Fujioka, president of the Philippine-based Asian Development Bank, was joined in discussion by Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, Professor of Sociology Ezra F. Vogel, Cabot Professor of Economics Hollis B. Chenery and Dillon Professor of International Affairs Raymond Vernon...
...guard and, in a subsequent Shootout, two local police officers. It was quickly apparent that the attack was not merely a last violent gasp of the radicalism born in the '60s. Information gleaned from the robbery and murder scenes led police to "safe houses" in Mount Vernon, N.Y., The Bronx and elsewhere, from which they carted away truckloads of evidence. With that material, plus leads provided by informants, police began a nationwide conspiracy probe that is still going...
...collaborations with George, and with a host of other composers including Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Kurt Weill and Vernon Duke, Ira could write lyrics that appeared clumsy or cliched; he could skip or cram syllables into a melodic line. But no lyricist used slang phrases earlier or as cleverly; none devised catchier titles; nobody got to the dramatic point faster than Ira. One reason so many Gershwin songs are so memorable is that Ira punched through the theme in the first few words ("They're writing songs of love,/ But not for me"). And in at least one song...
...fancy French restaurant," says someone who knows him, "he'll wind up with spaghetti and meat balls. He has very, very unsophisticated tastes." Notes a prominent black: "Your basic brother senses that Jesse is a lot closer to him than more polished guys like [former National Urban League President] Vernon Jordan...