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DIED. ARNIE MORTON, 83, restaurateur who in 1960, with Hugh Hefner and Victor Lownes, launched the first Playboy Club and then founded Morton's, the steak-house restaurants; of cancer; in Deerfield, Ill. His original Chicago eatery, opened in 1978, got a boost after Frank Sinatra dined there one night, and the newly dubbed "steak house for the rich" soon expanded to other cities...
...pleasantly bitter wit. But what makes the book work is Hornby's refusal to give an inch to sentimentality or cheap inspirational guff. "I didn't want a book where they loved each other," he says. "That seemed like a kind of bad, Hollywood way to go. They are frank with each other, but mostly so that they can abuse each other." Spoken like a true heavyweight. -By Lev Grossman
...were worst of all, at nearly 212 times the risk. That's not the rosy picture the Cooper institute paints, but it does show that exercise helps, placing the subjects on a sort of sliding scale of danger. "Physical activity doesn't eliminate the effects of obesity," says Dr. Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health, who co-wrote the study with the University of Minnesota's Jacobs, "but it can diminish them...
...Frank Herrmann (5-1, 3.09 ERA, .222 batting average against), who was the team’s No. 1 starter during the season and its most effective pitcher against Ivy League opponents, will take the hill against the Tigers...
That will be more likely if the Crimson gets together its stellar starting pitching staff as quickly as possible. Junior ace Frank Herrmann has been battling discomfort and freshman standout Shawn Haviland recently entered the University infirmary with a severe case of strep throat...