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...playoffs. The two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers seem poised to be only the fifth team in the league’s history to three-peat, with the indomitable Shaquille O’Neal close to joining the pantheon of truly elite basketball players such as Russell, Chamberlain, West, Bird, Magic, and Jordan...
...years until Ted Collins, Kate Smith's manager, asked Berlin if he had a patriotic song Smith might sing to mark the 20th anniversary of Armistice Day. Berlin had been in Europe a few weeks before and seen close-up the international cataclysm of the Munich Conference, where Chamberlain of Britain, declaring "peace in our time," capitulated to Hitler of Germany. Digging out his old song, Berlin demilitarized the lyric (no more "Make her victorious") and depoliticized it (no more "to the right" because, as he said, "in 1938, there was a right and a left...
...condemning to death women who commit adultery. DIED. LARRY COSTELLO, 70, a five-time All-Star guard for the Philadelphia 76ers and former Milwaukee Bucks coach; in Fort Myers, Florida. Costello, known as among the last to lob the two-handed set shot, clinched NBA titles alongside Wilt Chamberlain in 1967 and when coaching the Bucks in 1971. DIED. ASHOK KUMAR, 90, Indian screen legend who dazzled audiences in more than 250 films and won Indian cinema's highest honor, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, in 1989; in Bombay. Kumar starred in mega-hits such as Achhut Kanya and Jewel Thief...
...Star MVP, an Olympic gold medalist, a short-lived cartoon on NBC and a star of both an animated AND an IMAX movie. The whole world considers you the greatest basketball player in history. Of course, the whole world forgets how much more dominant Wilt Chamberlain was. But you’ve fooled most...
...BILL RUSSELL, Celtics legend If Jordan's comeback falls as flat as Magic Johnson's talk show, Russell may edge back into serious contention for the unofficial greatest NBA player ever. The field is muddled, but Jordan, who isn't the greatest scorer (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), rebounder (Wilt Chamberlain), floor leader (Magic Johnson) or winner (Russell) is considered the best ever because he blended those skills better than anyone...