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DIED. SHIRLEY POVICH, 92, irrepressible Washington Post sports columnist whose career stats--more than 15,000 articles in seven decades--made him the Cal Ripken of the beat; in Washington. Povich scored his first byline in 1924 and was soon a breakfast staple for Washington's sports addicts: President Nixon called his column "the only reason" to read the Post. But Povich's prose transcended the play-by-play; he championed such causes as integration, writing in 1946: "Four hundred and fifty-five years after Columbus eagerly discovered America, major league baseball reluctantly discovered the American Negro...
...quarters of negative growth, announced Friday, have tipped Japan into its first financial year of recession since the oil crisis of 1974. But this time the statistics are a little late with the story: "Japan has effectively been in a depression for four to five years," says TIME business columnist Daniel Kadlec. "They've been in a psychological recession since the stock market peaked in 1989. People who put all their money in equities then will never recover...
Rather than with Bridget, curl up with Nuala O'Faolain (Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman) and Julia Scully (Outside Passages), who elicit a hundred now-isn't-that-the-truth moments. O'Faolain, a celebrated columnist at the Irish Times, is more than a female Frank McCourt. While she's no slouch at depicting old-sod poverty--sleeping with a scrap of sheet to keep her father's overcoat from scratching her chin and dreaming of a place to hang her ragged clothes--her real strength is in her close-to-the-bone rendering...
...show was then called) proved very difficult to raise. MGM, which owned the dramatic rights, refused to make a $69,000 investment for half the profits. The word on the tryout in New Haven, Conn., was awful. One of Walter Winchell's informants wired the columnist: "No girls, no legs, no jokes, no chance...
Lewis Grossberger is a columnist for Mediaweek magazine