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Minkus-Elmuts: Lost to McMillen-Lee (Tenn...
Going to the hoop-la. Football metaphors were in the ascendant during the convention (Dukakis: "Every team has to have a quarterback. That's the nominee"), but rangy basketball players posted up and down the convention floor. Four former professional B-ball players were delegates. Maryland Congressman Tom McMillen (6 ft. 11 in.) played for the Washington Bullets. Walt Bellamy (6 ft. 11 in.), a Jackson delegate from Georgia, played center for the Atlanta Hawks, among others. Arizona Congressman Morris Udall (6 ft. 5 in.) played one year for the Denver Nuggets. New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley...
Thank you and my congratulations to Mr. Murphy and The Crimson. Priscilla Johnson McMillen...
Playing opposite Bill Bradley in the congressional front court. Unlike Bradley, newly elected Congressman Tom McMillen of Maryland did not, as a professional basketball player, move well without the ball. Like the New Jersey Senator, however, he is a neoliberal Democrat, a Rhodes scholar and a victor in his first race for office. At 6 ft. 11 in., he is 6 in. taller than Bradley and a full 2 ft. taller than his Maryland colleague, Senator-elect Barbara Mikulski (a savvy point guard if there ever...
...family." Michael L. Bradley, executive secretary of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, wonders whether the resurgence "is religious or cultural. I'm inclined to think the catalyst may be cultural." And part of the consumer culture, at that. Many department stores now have computerized bridal registries and, reports Margaret McMillen of Bullocks Wilshire in Los Angeles, "couples are putting everything on the lists. They're not shy at all." Sometimes they even re-register. Lee Rae Ulrich of San Diego married for a second time recently and signed up again because "everything I had was worn out." By the time...