Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the subway line) take care of the rest. Along the trail, must sees for history buffs include: the State House; the Granary Burying Ground, final resting place of not only Samuel Adams and John Hancock but also of your childhood friend, Mother Goods; Old North Church, of Longfellow fame...
...definitely not the best way to meet women, but hey, it works. Among the many letters Oklahoma City bombing suspect TIMOTHY MCVEIGH has received are three or four marriage proposals. "I suspect most are from women who want fame or to write a book," says McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, "but some want to look after him." He says McVeigh has also received Bibles and crucifixes, "and one of them was quite nice...
...clients to say yes to a house he shows them. Then he wants to slip down to the Jersey shore and spend the night with his girlfriend Sally. And he has committed himself to a two-day trip with the troubled Paul, their ultimate destination the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown: "If your son begins suddenly to fall at a headlong rate, you must through the agency of love and greater age throw him a line and haul him back...
...good people of Wisconsin have always had mixed feelings about one of their best-known native sons. They took pride in the achievements and fame of Frank Lloyd Wright, arguably the 20th century's most original architect, who died in 1959 at 91. Yet they also deplored his bohemian life-style, his arrogance and bombast, his leftist politics and above all his predilection for scandal. In 1909, to cite one notorious example, he abandoned his first wife and their six children to carry on a flagrant affair with a client's spouse. One result of Wisconsin's ambivalence: while...
...recovering from liver transplant surgeryearly this morning. Theformer Yankee great, 63, received the organ just two days after doctors at Baylor University hospital decided that his advanced liver cancer, complicated by hepatitis, would soon kill him otherwise. Physicians insisted that Mantle's age and deteriorating condition -- not his fame -- put him at the top on the waiting list when they found a new liver Wednesday night. "A lot of people were suspicious of this--last night we'd heard it could be three or four weeks, and now today he has the new liver," says TIME Dallas reporter Carlton Stowers...