Word: wickham
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With his fast talk about how to "strategize" a craps table, his self- designed gold-inlaid ruby belt buckle and a jet-black Western shirt embroidered with two crimson roses, Ken Wickham, 63, is the very image of a high-rolling gambler. He stands 6 ft. 6 in. in his 10-gallon hat that is festooned with red feathers and a Hopi rain-dance pin for good luck. Wickham soon lets you know he's no ordinary man: he says he's an evangelist minister who flew half a dozen missions with the 101st Airborne Division in World...
...which makes Wickham just the right man for the job at hand: a slot- machine tournament at Trump's Castle casino in Atlantic City. Perhaps no one among the 360 participants is better equipped for the slot battle than Wickham, who owns a Jackson, N.J., sewer business whose motto somehow says it all: "If You Ain't on Our S--- List, You're No Friend of Ours." Clearly, here's a man who knows a royal flush when he sees one. But his real game, the one he has sharpened through 20 tournaments during the past four years...
Jessica Mosher, Cabot, Anthropology; Beth Quitsland, Lowell, History and Literature; Jessica Todd Smith, Winthrop, Fine Arts; Carrie Weber, North, Literature; Lisa Wickham, Quincy, Physics; Rebecca Zorach, Adams, History and Literature...
...more, 55% of the country's 1,645 dailies still do not employ a single minority member in the newsroom. "Every year when roll call is made, there are only incremental increases in the number of blacks in print and fewer and fewer in broadcasting," laments Columnist Dewayne Wickham, president of the 1,700- member N.A.B.J...
...both sides of the still heavily fortified Sino-Soviet frontier. The two- week trip was organized by the New York City-based National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. The delegation was led by former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman and former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General John Wickham. The only journalist in the group was TIME Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, who filed this report...