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HOWARD HAILS FROM THE NORTH east. He grew up in Manhasset, New York, located on the northern shore of Long Island. He acted and played basketball at Manhasset High School, where he was the only white player on his school team. He garnered the nickname, "White Shadow," from the rival Great Neck basketball squad. Regarding that nickname, Howard's former high school coach Fritz Mueller says, "sure he liked it, but he'd love any nickname. He was very funny and would spend hours singing in the showers with the other guys after practice, because Ken is a great singer...
...television show "The White Shadow," which he created, Howard played an exprofessional basketball player turned high school coach. Howard loosely modelled his character after Mueller, even wearing replicas of his coach's sweat gear. The show's players also wore the orange-and-blue of Manhasset...
...Editorial Board: Stephen L. Ascher '88 of Winthrop House and Manhasset, New York; Gregory R. Bell '89 of Mather House and Portland, Oregon; Emily S. Bingham '87 of Mather House and Louisville, Kentucky; John M. Glazer '87-'88 of Quincy House and Orinda, California; Christine Huang '90 of Wigglesworth Hall and Berkeley, California; Susan L. Kelly '87 of Adams House and Chattanooga, Tennessee; John F. Lambros '87-'88 of Adams House and New York, New York; Eric Pulier '88 of Winthrop House and Teanack, New Jersey; Andrew J. Sussman '87 of Adams House and Staten Island, New York; Steven...
...real name) that they had placed her on a stringent low-fat diet in an effort to ensure that she did not become obese. Told that the strict regimen was stunting the toddler's growth, they were surprised. Says Pugliese, a pediatric endocrinologist at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.: "They really felt they were doing what was right for the child's long-term benefit...
...others as well. FBI Director William Webster announced last Thursday that the bureau had foiled attempts by Barmyantsev and two other Soviet spies to obtain U.S. secrets. Oleg Konstantinov, 33, an intelligence agent serving at the Soviet mission to the U.N., had been picked up by FBI agents in Manhasset, L.I., in the act of attempting to obtain military aerospace secrets from a U.S. citizen operating "under the control of the FBI," in the cautious words of a bureau spokesman. Konstantinov left the U.S. before he was expelled. Another worker at the Soviet U.N. mission, Alexander Mikheyev, 44, was caught...