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...Chicago. Residents of the popular resort community watched the lake's level rise 51 inches above its usual 12 feet between Friday and Sunday. Volunteers filled sandbags, and by dawn Monday, the sun was shining. "We were in waiting mode, hoping to see the water go down," says Tom Diehl, general manager and co-owner of the Tommy Bartlett Show, a circus-like variety show popular with Midwestern families. But the water kept rising, saturating the land around the lake. Eventually, it collapsed, Diehl says, "right before our eyes." Diehl is hoping to reopen the show this weekend...
Harvard held the lead at 6-3 after two matches, when freshman Shay Warren pinned Chris Diehl in 1:26 at 133 pounds...
DIED. William Diehl, 81, late-starting novelist who penned popular, mayhem-ridden novels including Sharky's Machine and Primal Fear; in Atlanta. A decorated World War II veteran, he got a job as an obituary writer at the Atlanta Constitution after the war, then became a reporter and freelance photographer. His move into fiction was inspired in part by boredom--he began writing Sharky's Machine, his first novel, at age 50, while serving as a juror. His fast-paced thrillers translated easily to film--Burt Reynolds played the title character in the 1981 adaptation of Sharky's Machine...
Such instruction is essential, say experts, for a generation raised on Bart Simpson and Britney Spears. "Kids are being encouraged by pop culture to be disrespectful and self-destructive, and their parents are frightened and looking for help," says Diane Diehl, whose quarterly Petite Protocol classes at the swank Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles last four hours and cost $250 a session...
...water so people could see her. She proceeded to do just that, through innumerable hydro-musicals in the '40s and '50s as well as in her personal life, where she seemed to have a knack for choosing the wrong man. Now, in her engaging memoir, co-written with Digby Diehl, she recalls her life as a star at MGM alongside such legends as Clark Gable, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner. Williams, always sassy, proves herself to be a daring memoirist. She tells of being raped repeatedly by a foster brother, being pawed by half the men in Hollywood, taking...