Word: ymca
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...asked me when I was younger what I would do,” Holsey says, “I probably would have said I’d play soccer.”But there was little denying her early basketball talent. In one of her first junior recreational YMCA games for an otherwise all-boy team, she scored four points—“huge, for like a second grade game,” she laughs.Her coach was infuriated.“What took you so long to start passing to her?” he asked the squad...
...hard-working, self-effacing special assistant and close friend to Lyndon Johnson until his resignation three weeks before the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, following his arrest on a morals charge; of complications from a stroke; in Austin. Jenkins was accused of homosexual behavior in a Washington YMCA. Forfeiting bond, he did not appear in court to face the charge against him, and left politics, later becoming a management consultant and operator of an Austin cable construction company...
...before she started stripping, Bambi, like John and Louie, grew up in Lynn. Her father left when she was nine, and she spent her childhood among the mirrors and beauty supplies that her mother worked with as a hairdresser. She worked as a lifeguard at the YMCA for a while, but she didn’t like being told what to do by her bosses. So she tried modeling nude for art classes. Then she realized she could make a lot more money by adding a little bit to her routine...
...peek inside (the theater's been restored and again hosts performances), as well as offering stops at two of Duke Ellington's childhood homes, the African American Civil War Memorial (the museum is down the block) and the Thurgood Marshall Center--a building that was the nation's first YMCA for blacks and Langston Hughes' home during the '20s. The tour costs $10 and meets the first and third Saturdays of the month at the U Street/ Cardozo Metro station at 13th and U streets...
Monday, April 11. Khaled Hosseini reads from The Kite Runner. 6 p.m., Cambridge YMCA. Admission free...