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...know quite how it happened that I'm making $1,000,000 a month," says Cortes Wesley Randell, 32, a Washingtonian who is president and chief executive of National Stu dent Marketing Corp. "I just sit in the office and talk to people...
There was also evidence that the early Washingtonian had suffered a grisly fate. Both human and animal bones found at the site were blackened-probably by fire-and some were split as if someone had tried to get at the bone marrow. "I think that it's entirely possible that the Marmes man was consumed by his buddies," says Geologist Fryxell. "In other words, they had him for dinner." From the fragmented condition of the skull, it was plain that Marmes man had also suffered from Excedrin Headache...
...racket reverberated briskly from an article in the magazine Washingtonian contending that there were seven good tennis players in the Senate, only one of whom-New York's Jacob Javits, 63-is a Republican. When Pennsylvania's Democrat Joseph Clark saw fit to mention the matter on the Senate floor, Tennessee Republican Howard Baker netted five other tautly strung Republicans for doubles duty in something called the U.S. Senate Tennis championship. The Washingtonian knew what it was talking about. Democrats Clark and Claiborne Pell (R.I.) knocked off Illinois' Charles Percy and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond...
...footnote to your story on luminal art [April 28]: In November 1963, the Corcoran Gallery presented a show called "Design in Light" that may have been the earliest exhibit of luminal art. The artist was a Washingtonian, William Bechhoefer, who developed his technique in the Visual Art Center at Harvard. His technique was described as follows...
Washington General. Tall and polished, Bus Wheeler, 59, is a Washingtonian by birth and a Washington general by training. Unlike his five predecessors and many other prominent alumni of the Joint Chiefs, Wheeler has always been the planner and strategist, never a war hero or even much of a combat vet eran. He had only five months of frontline infantry service during World War II, and even that was a staff assignment; during the Korean War, he was assigned to the Pentagon and Trieste. Though all too clearly no Patton type, he is known nonetheless as the most gifted tank...