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...middle years. Columnist Art Buchwald, 40, pulled up stakes in Paris as the celebrity's celebrity, relocated himself in Washington, D.C., and mined it for satire. Astronaut John Glenn, 45, is a vice president of Royal Crown Cola. Sometimes the change is an allout risk. Maxwell Wihnyk, 54, was running a mildly profitable newspaper in Beaumont, Calif., five years ago, but there was no joy in it. With a wife and three dependent children, he decided to go to law school. Says he: "You can scare the hell out of yourself living off capital for three years; in fact...
...West Coast switcher is Maxwell Wihnyk, who in 1947 bought a small weekly in the desert community of Beaumont, Calif., and built it into a profitable chain of seven papers. "One morning in 1961," he recalls, "I woke up and realized that the papers I owned weren't providing me with satisfaction." Wihnyk was fascinated by courtrooms, decided that he had "seen hundreds of lawyers who weren't doing as good a job as I thought I could do." So, at 48, he sold his papers, joined his daughter as a student at U.C.L.A. Now an attorney, Wihnyk...
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