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...Boyd, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical School, said that he and his wife had informed his daughter and her fellow classmates at the St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. that alcohol and drugs would not be permitted at the event, ABC News reported...
...Moscow by himself, arriving on April 8 with a note from Hansen saying, "I no longer wish to parent this child." She was giving him up, the note explained, because he was "mentally unstable." But she wasn't giving up on her desire to be a mother. According to ABC News, Hansen, a registered nurse in Shelbyville, Tenn., was trying to adopt a child from another country at the same time she was hiring a driver over the Internet to shuttle Artyom from the Moscow airport to Ministry of Education authorities in Russia...
Instrumental in developing Wide World of Sports in the nascent years of ABC Sports, Chet later headed NBC Sports and had a guiding hand in numerous technical innovations, such as the use of instant replay. And, again with the fan in mind and at heart, he hired a Koufax, a Kubek, and several other great sports names as commentators. With two networks behind him, Chet then went to ESPN, becoming the 24-hour sports channel's first president in 1979. "What lies ahead for cable television is incalculable," he said. How right...
...White House has mostly avoided direct public engagement with its unlikely critic. On ABC's This Week recently, White House economic aide Larry Summers dodged a question about Kaufman's complaints. "Senator Kaufman is exactly right," he said instead, sympathizing with the concern about large bank failures. In fact, on whether to dismantle the largest banks, it would be hard for the two men to disagree more...
...wild frontier." Under the iconic cap--just one of the show's many merchandising tie-ins--stood Fess Parker, who died on March 18 at 85. The 6-ft. 6-in. Texas-born actor fit the rugged American frontiersman mold so well in the five Crockett episodes of ABC's Disneyland that he went on to play Daniel Boone in the 1960s NBC series of the same name. (Boone, as the ballad went, "was a man, yes a big man!") Parker starred in such movies as Old Yeller and Westward Ho, the Wagons! But in the years following...