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...second wife), Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow (his third), Natalie Wood and Lauren Bacall. But the most important woman in the singer's life, and Kelley's most substantial contribution to the inside story, may have been Sinatra's mother Dolly, an abortionist, ward politician and all-round force of nature who clawed her way up from poverty in Hoboken, saw to it that her high-school-dropout son always had slick clothes and spending money, and helped set up his first singing gigs...
...Thorndike devised a "goodness index" to rate U.S. cities, no rankings have inspired more disagreement than those about home sweet home. The latest edition of Rand McNally's Places Rated Almanac can only add to the controversy. According to the 449-page paperback released last week, the best all-round metropolitan area in which to live in the U.S. is Pittsburgh. The worst: Yuba City, Calif...
...ligament in his left leg and a severed Achilles tendon. His appearance in international meets was both belated and successful. He won his first gold medal on parallel bars at the 1981 world championships in Moscow. Last year in Budapest, he finished first on rings and second in the all-round competition. Gushiken, realizing that these Olympic Games will be his first and probably last, shows formidable determination: "I didn't grow older for nothing. You'll find out at Los Angeles...
DIED. George Zaharias, 76, huge, exuberant, cauliflower-eared professional wrestler who gave up his own highly successful career to manage that of his wife, Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias, the top all-round woman athlete in the world until her death of cancer in 1956; of kidney and heart disease; in Tampa...
Chrissie Hynde, lead singer, prime force and all-round soul shaker of the Pretenders, picked up the phone one morning in her London apartment and heard the voice of the band's manager. "What is it?" she said, and he said, "We've heard that Jim died. I'll call you back when I find out anything...