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...thought that the system was pretty foolproof, and I didn't realize that something like this was possible," said first-year student Kevin L. Drumm...
Despite heavy odds -- most beyond their control -- some plucky ex-employees do manage to get back to work. In 1988, at the age of 50, Linda Drumm lost her $20,000-a-year job as a supervisor in a dress factory in Mattoon, Ill., when the plant closed its doors. The fresh-faced clerk she encountered at a local unemployment office held out little hope for a good new job. "I hate to tell you this," Drumm recalls the young woman saying, "but you know that you're over the hill." The remark hurt her deeply, but Drumm now says...
When a court order finally released the brothers from bondage in 1949, Stanley, 13, was 5 ft. 4 in. and weighed 97 lbs. Richard, 12, was an inch under 5 ft. and only 80 lbs. The pathetic pair were admitted to the Andrew Drumm Institute, a boy's home on a working farm near Independence, Mo. There Richard attended high school and learned to grow vegetables and slaughter chickens for the institute's kitchen. There, too, he escaped to the pages of books and so impressed his teachers that they put him on a scholarship road to Yale...
Irish Playwright Hugh Leonard is a kind of family doctor among contemporary dramatists. He probes the aches and pain of a lifetime. Drumm (Roy Dotrice), the unheroic hero of A Life, whom we first met in Leonard's "Da, " is an aging civil servant with razor-blade lips and a cut tingly witty tongue. He is dying of cancer, and what he finds out in this play is that he has squandered his life by suppressing...
...Frank F. Drumm Jr. Grand Lake, Colo...