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Last week the spotlight also fell on M. Danny Wall, picked by the White House in July 1987 to replace Edwin Gray as chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Gray, a onetime captive of the savings and loan industry, lost his job when he began to speak out about the extent of the S & L fraud...
Early on, the shy, Kansas-born social worker made two key decisions: she fell in love with flying, and she married a publisher, G.P. Putnam. He manipulated the press to create an international celebrity. Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to Oakland. But if she was an eagle aloft, she remained a sparrow on the ground. Lovell, biographer of the British pilot Beryl Markham, can do little to romanticize her taciturn subject. It is only when Earhart climbs into the cockpit that The Sound of Wings truly...
CHET BAKER: MY FAVOURITE SONGS (Enja). The haunting picture on the cover says it all: a face ravaged by drugs but eyes still full of dreams and yearning. This was the trumpeter's last concert, taped just two weeks before he fell to his death from an Amsterdam hotel window at age 58. But forget the quirky timing: Baker's full-throated horn never sounded better, and his poignant vocal on My Funny Valentine is an unforgettable paean to lost youth...
Lately the Big Three have been sideswiped from two directions. As the ! transplants tool up for greater output, total U.S. auto sales are declining, in part because of a slowing economy. Sales of imported and domestic autos in the U.S. fell 3.8% during the first nine months of this year, to 7.8 million cars. This year the Big Three kept sales artificially stimulated by such incentives as interest-free financing and rebates of as much...
Against Yale, the Crimson scored two first period goals and then was shut out for the remainder of the game. Saturday, Harvard tallied three times against Brown in the first frame, but its guns fell silent in the final two periods...