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Elson, a sometime dance critic and longtime oenophile, began at TIME as a summer-vacation copy boy while an undergraduate at Notre Dame. He went on to get an M.A. in English from Columbia, and after a stint in Japan with the Air Force joined our Detroit bureau in 1957. He later transferred to New York, where he wrote and edited Religion as well as other sections, and he moved to World three years ago. "What's going on now is as challenging and complex a variety of situations as I've had to deal with...
...Kennedy, his wife Joan and sisters Eunice Shriver, Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, joined some 325 journalists and friends at the sixth annual presentation of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Awards, which honored reporting on minority-group problems. Then Ethel thanked CBS's Roger Mudd for his stint as awards chairman. "I would like to add one personal note," she began, only to come near tears as she recalled the tragedy in a kitchen passageway of Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on a night in June, 1968. "It was because of Roger, who led me through the crowd...
...Shake People Up." "Because I was in philosophy, Antioch didn't know what kind of job to get me during work periods. They figured the best thing would be as broad a life experience as possible." That included a stint as copyperson for the Cleveland Press, a summer as an assistant in archaeology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History classifying artifacts ("I loved that") and in a Maryland mental hospital. Afterward, though she had never written anything but occasional poetry, she roughed out a story about psychological doubles. It eventually became the germ of Mundome...
...married a beautiful, rich girl and, after a distinguished stint in World War II, won a seat in the Canadian Parliament. He rose to be a Minister of Justice -"the most complex man I've ever known and perhaps the most able," says a colleague-and finally Chief Justice. Throughout, Andrews remained aloof (or, to his many critics, cold), thoughtful (or calculating), devoted to the public good (or his own ambition...
Lois Stalvey met other nonreaders, all of them poor and black, when she did a once-a-week hourly stint as a volunteer teacher. Described to their faces by the principal as "the worst class the school's ever had," her eighth-graders had been virtually abandoned by their regular teacher, a white Peace Corps dropout who thought he would find urban education "more meaningful." When he failed to reach the students, he had become bitter and turned against them. "Some of those teachers could make kids feel dumb without saying anything," another Stalvey son, "Spike," explained...