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Other states seem anxious to get in step. Two weeks after Brooks was executed, Massachusetts became the 38th state with a death penalty on the books, and Oregon seems likely to become the 39th, 20 years after capital punishment was abolished there by popular vote...
...house at Broadway and 39th Street, which was built in 1883, was outmoded, and Bliss became a chief proponent of a move to a new structure in Lincoln Center. He won his argument, and the company journeyed north in 1966. But following a feud with Rudolf Bing, the Met's impresario from 1950 to 1972, he was pushed aside as board president. When Bing's successor, Schuyler Chapin, failed to curb the escalating deficits, Bliss was brought in as a salaried executive to put the house in order...
...thing about T. Boone Pickens: nobody ever faulted him for thinking small. "We did not come to town on a load of watermelons," declared the chairman of Mesa Petroleum Co. of Amarillo, Texas (1981 sales: $408 million) from his 39th-floor suite atop New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Pickens, 54, had come to New York loaded not with watermelons but with money, $ 1 billion in bank credits to be exact. He intended to use the money to buy up a company nearly 20 times Mesa's size. His target: Cities Service Co. of Tulsa, the nation...
...barely 5 ft. 11 in., barely 165 Ibs., barely 21 years old. He blushes and scuffs his toe a lot. In 65 years only two players had ever scored 50 goals in a season's first 50 games; this year Gretzky scored his 50th goal in the 39th game, and last week he reached the alltime record 77th goal (and the 78th, and the 79th) with 16 games to go. It is more than just embarrassing...
...Jack Carter, 58, Joey Bishop, 63, Phyllis Diller, 64, Carl Reiner, 59, Sid Caesar, 59;(front row) Jan Murray, 64, George Burns, 85, Danny, Red Buttons, 62, Steve Lawrence, 46, and Buddy Hackett, 57. One longtime Hollywood hand telephoned Thomas. "I'm calling to congratulate you on your 39th birthday," said Ronald Reagan, 70. Replied Thomas: "You never did get your lines right...