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...doubters should recall that Turner has prevailed over long odds before. He rebuilt his family's failing billboard business, turned money-losing WTBS into a national cable powerhouse with profits of $5 million last year and won the America's Cup against the world's finest yachtsmen. Brash, abrasive, sometimes uncouth, Ted Turner is a guy that many people would love to see fail. In his current enterprise, though, he has a lot of fans. Says NBC'S Davis: "The more people we have in the news business, the better off we are in this country...
...Elizabeth Bishop, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former senior lecturer in English, died of a stroke in early October. Colleagues eulogized her as one of the finest poets of her time...
...deputy to the group vice president in charge of book publishing, cable television and film operations. Enthusiastic and disciplined, Munro rises every morning before dawn and runs six to eight miles almost every evening. Says Heiskell: "He has enormous intelligence, integrity and humanity. He's one of the finest acquirers of talent that I've ever known...
...reality. As he moved forward, he found in collage a way of linking cubism back to the world. Collage, which simply means gluing, brought fragments of modern life?newspaper headlines, printed labels?directly into the painting. Cut them out, put them in. The tonal values of some of his finest collages have been ruined by age. The newsprint, once gray on white, is now cigar-brown. But in better preserved ones, like Violin and Sheet Music, 1912, the original effect remains: a magnificently Apollonian interplay of blue, gray, white and black on its ocher ground, stable and forceful...
...trial is the latest in a series of federal and state prosecutions for race fixing in five states. Twenty-two men have been convicted in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Michigan. But the New York case is by far the most serious, for some of the nation's finest and most famous riders have been named in court testimony. Jockey José Amy, 26 -like Feliciano an admitted fixer who struck a deal with prosecutors in exchange for testifying-claimed that eleven jockeys knew of the schemes, including three riders who were in the Preakness last weekend. The trio...