Word: normans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walls are bare in the large office on M Street except for a print of a Norman Rockwell portrait of Ronald Reagan. On a conference table lie nearly 100 letters in careful rows, waiting for signatures. On the desk is a picture frame, but instead of family photographs (wife and three children) it contains a schedule, neatly filled with appointments, six days a week, beginning with a daily 7 a.m. planning meeting with top assistants and ending often at 8 p.m. Next to the schedule is a clock...
...legal self-counseling movement has a father figure, it is Norman Dacey, a retired estate planner who in 1965 spent $22,000 of his own money to publish How to Avoid Probate! He went door to door to bookstores in his home town, Bridgeport, Conn., and a few copies found their way to Brentano's in New York City, where the book was an instant success. Crown Publishers bought the rights, and Dacey shot to the top of the bestseller lists, ultimately selling 1.5 million copies. He was also No. 1 on many lawyers' hit lists...
Charles R. Pecinovsky, a personnel representative at the CIA's Boston office, handed out application forms and described CIA job openings at the meeting, which more than 50 students attended, Norman K. Smith, assistant dean and director of career and student services, said yesterday...
SOKOLOV ATTRIBUTES to Liebling the pioneering work in the foggy area between fiction and journalism which Truman Capote and Norman Mailer later explored. Liebling's greatness lay in his absorption of the entire story--in both senses--behind people and events, from Seventh-Avenue con men to Sugar Ray Robinson. He embraced his subjects' lives and their outlook on the world; searched out their motivations and methods and then laid forth their lives, mostly in their own words--but through his own wild periscope of the self-style uptown revel, the reluctant Jew, the recipient of all that his immigrant...
...Norman Birnbaum, Visiting Professor