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...survey, MGH was named as the premier general hospital in the country. Harvard-affiliated Shriner Burn Center ranked as the highest in its category, as did Children's Hospital...
...readiness: A doctor (well, Adams House pre-med tutor George Shriner) stands on the sidelines in cape, toting a black bag. A little kid with an inflatable Spiderman ring cavorts through the crowd...
Gregory gave $228,000 to charities, including the First Baptist Church in Pensacola and the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children in Galveston, Texas, between 1974 and 1977. His First Bank of Macon County (Ala.) gave an unsecured $31,200 loan to the Atlanta-based Institutional Development Corp., which aids disadvantaged youths and has the strong backing of First Lady Rosalynn Carter. The same bank lent $32,400 to Robert Stapleton-husband of Jimmy Carter's sister Ruth-for the purchase of an evangelistic retreat in Denton, Texas...
...more like the appendix. His salary was a miserable $25 a week. After a false start as a collegian at New York University and City College, he went back to being a full-time funnyman-first for the late Herb Shriner (for $75 a week), then for Singer Pat Boone, Garry Moore, Art Carney and Sid Caesar. By the time he went to work for Caesar, Woody was making $1,500 a week. He had also acquired three new fields to mine for comedy: an apartment, an analyst, and a wife, Harlene Rosen...
Died. Herb Shriner, 51, low-key comic, whose homespun, Will Rogers-like style entertained a generation of Americans; with his wife Eileen when their car left the road and hit a tree while they were returning from a nightclub date; in Delray Beach, Fla. Shriner broke into vaudeville in the '30s with a routine that combined the harmonica and wry, sly jokes about life back home in Indiana. ("I came from a small town. Well, I'll give you an idea of the size of it. It was between the first and second signs of a Burma Shave...