Dean Laux
Dean Laux

Dean Laux

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Friendly Neighbor, Fabulous Career

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An Ideal Man For An Ideal Career Craig Shniderman was born in Washington D.C., the “City of Lawyers,” in 1947, attached to a family tree laden with attorneys, so it would hardly be a surprise for Craig to become a lawyer. The surprise is that he did not.

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Living Life In The Fast Lane If you’re going to be an actor, writer, musician, singer, lighting technician, director AND (not or) entrepreneur, you’d better start early in life and move fast. And that’s exactly what John Munn has done.

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How many of us ever actually get to fulfill our childhood dreams? Did Alice stay forever in Wonderland? Did Dorothy find peaceful bliss in the Land of Oz? Of course not, though we can imagine that they might have, like the heroines in fairy tales, lived happily ever after in more mundane settings.

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He brought us the blues... and made us happy It’s safe to say that Anton (“Tony”) Hollinger was predestined to be a restaurateur. In a farming region just outside Linz, Austria, where he was born, his parents owned a tavern and adjacent two-lane bowling alley (why not?).

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This Onetime ‘Rebel’ Has Many A Cause To Advocate For

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William Wordsworth, poet laureate under Queen Victoria, observed wisely that “the child is father of the man,” and that dictum can be readily supported in the life story of Linwood Ashby Beverly, Jr. (That’s admittedly a highfalutin moniker to carry around with you all day, and Linwood Ashby Beverly, Jr. prefers to be called “Lin” by friends and family alike. “Heck,” he says, “I’m not sure where those names came from in the first place. There’s no history of them among our ancestors.”)

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She's In A League Of Her Own You could call Susan Parsons Zipay a natural athlete. The second-youngest of seven children born to William and Doris Parsons during the Great Depression, she honed her skills against her older brothers and sisters, and she was readily accepted by the neighborhood kids – male or female – in Hingham, Massachusetts to play in their daily sandlot games...

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This Lady Truly Followed Her Dream From her earliest years, Melissa Pell Loughlin wanted to be involved in the world of art, and it’s no wonder. Her father, Peter S. Pell, was a lover of art, and her mother Carolyn was co-chair of the Costume Institute of the world-renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City...

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He Went From Moppet To Mentor The story of Englewood’s Paul Powers could have been written by Charles Dickens. He grew up in Milford, Massachusetts in a family of modest means, and his childhood was not what one would call ideal...

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