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...aside from choosing to play defense. Mark Benning hasn't gone the traditional Benning family route: from skating as two-year-old through midect bantam and junior hockey to the National Hockey League...
...made millionaire, gave guest lectures at Harvard Business School in the late 1960s, he sensed in the students' questions an academic naivete about business. He thought they needed "street smarts." Now McCormack has helped out by writing What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School (Bantam; $15.95), a potpourri of tips for anyone who works for a company, runs one or wants...
...book to be published in the U.S. this week offers a shocking judgment: that John Paul I was murdered. In his work, titled In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of John Paul I (Bantam; $16.95), British Author David Yallop contends that the Pontiff was ordered killed by one or more of six suspects, all of whom "had a great deal to fear if the papacy of John Paul I continued...
...50th birthday, Shirley MacLaine was in New York City, and she attended festivities all day long. Her publisher, Bantam Books, celebrated the climb of Out on a Limb to the top spot on the New York Times paperback-bestsellers list. At the 1,992-seat Gershwin Theater, where Shirley MacLaine on Broadway is grossing $475,000 a week, a house record, another bash was thrown by the show's producers. They had heard the star telling an interviewer that the only thing she had never done was to ride an elephant. So when MacLaine arrived at the theater...
...play, but a virtual reinvention of it. And Hoffman's performance as Willy is nothing short of a revelation. He has stripped away all the doomy portents that have encrusted the character over the years and brought him down to fighting weight, a scrappy, snappy little bantam, whom the audience may, if it wishes, choose to see as a victim, but who almost never sees himself that way. Not long ago, Arthur Miller said that "Willy is foolish and even ridiculous sometimes. He tells the most transparent lies, exaggerates mercilessly, and so on. But I want...