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...TELEVISION Red Sox at Royals, Ch. 38, 2:30 p.m. Phillies at Braves, TBS, 4:00 p.m. Diamond. at Dodgers, ESPN, 4:00 p.m. Brewers at Cards, ESPN, 7:00 p.m. Canad. at Bruins, NESN, 7:00 p.m. Celtics at Magic, Ch. 68, 7:30 p.m. WCW Mon. Not. Nitro!, TNT, 8:00 p.m. WWF Raw, USA, 8:00 p.m. Pacers at Pistons, TBS, 8:30 p.m. Yankees at A's, ESPN...
...David Ho is director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City and TIME's 1996 Man of the Year
Whatever pressure the rookie felt from all these ravenous expectations never showed on the diamond. He not only did it all, he did it with a stylishness that awed sportswriters and spectators alike. DiMaggio was the leading American League vote getter for the 1936 All-Star game. That same summer he appeared on the cover of this magazine. His Yankees cruised to the AL pennant, the team's first since 1932, and beat the rival New York Giants in the World Series. (During DiMaggio's 13 years as the Yankees' star player, the team appeared in 10 Series...
...original furnishings to match. Emerson, who lived there in 1834-1835, began writing his first great essay, "Nature," in the second-floor study. Hawthorne lived there with his beloved bride Sophia from 1842 to 1845, writing Mosses from an Old Manse. On windows throughout the house, Sophia used her diamond wedding ring to etch words of joy about her marriage and the beauty that surrounded her, including the ice-draped trees outside that she described as "glass chandeliers." The vegetable garden in the back was planted by Thoreau as a wedding gift...
...history of the national pastime, is dead. Tributes to the Yankee Clipper, who in his time won the hearts of a generation of Americans, have poured in from across the country. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig hailed DiMaggio as "the personification of grace, class and dignity on the baseball diamond." Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould, eulogizing DiMaggio, called him "the glory of a time that we will not see again." President Clinton, in a statement, said, "this son of Italian immigrants gave every American something to believe...