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HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Joe DiMaggio will be hospitalized for three more weeks with pneumonia and a lung infection even though his lawyer said yesterday he had improved from earlier this month when "we were fearful for his life...
...child, I was taught not to peek into other people's windows or read other people's letters. I feel embarrassed and disturbed that I was forcefully exposed to someone's private matters. ZOYA KINSTLER Tampa, Fla...
DIED. FRANK YANKOVIC, 83, a.k.a. America's Polka King, maestro of Midwestern dance halls for seven decades who won the first ever Grammy for the folksy musical genre; in New Port Richey, Fla. Yankovic pumped his first accordion at age nine and soon took his signature Slovenian-style polka show on the road. Devoted fans, some known to have ripped off his clothes, won his devotion in return: he played so many one-night stands that he missed the birth of all 10 of his kids...
...20/20 news story critical of ABC's parent, the Walt Disney Co. The network said, "We were looking into a possible story concerning theme parks, which would have included, among others, Disney. A draft story was submitted that did not work." Indeed, the submitted story did mention other Orlando, Fla., parks, noting that theme parks tend to attract child molesters who seek to work at them. But the report singled out Disney as less responsive than other park operators to the problem. According to an ABC source familiar with the story, the report would have disclosed that Disney cooperates...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: You can understand what John Glenn means when he says -- repeatedly -- that there are more important things to pay attention to on the upcoming shuttle mission than a lowly payload specialist such as himself. For example, Glenn is going to have some skittish houseguests to take care of after Thursday's blastoff: three casefuls of large, brown, southern-style cockroaches. The nose-wrinkling experiment belongs to a Maryland high school, who are paying the bugs' round-trip ticket to discover whether zero gravity throws off cockroach reproductive skills...