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...this way. The loss of his knowledge and institutional memory is incalculable—part of the wide-scale national throwing out of talent as once-valuable leaders are put out to pasture. In their 1995 book, The Winner-Take-All-Society, economists Philip Cook and Robert Frank point to how “winner-take-all” contests lead to a waste of national talent. The arrival of a new top dog means that the old one, including all of the hard lessons and information learned along the way, is cast aside. CEOs, governors and presidents...
...DIED. FRANK WHITE, 69, ex-Governor of Arkansas, one of only two people to defeat Bill Clinton in an election; of a heart attack; in Little Rock, Ark. During Clinton's troubled first term as Governor, White switched parties, ran against Clinton in 1980 and won. White was best known for signing a law, later struck down by a federal court, requiring science teachers who taught the theory of evolution to include "creation science...
...Owner John Constance, a two-term Sackets Harbor mayor and former-Marine, has a son-in-law, Major Pat Frank, with the 101st Airborne Division. Frank?s tent was one of the ones that was hit in March by grenades tossed by a fellow serviceman at Camp Pennsylvania, in Kuwait. Pat was returning from the showers when it happened. ?Its been such a strain on my poor daughter [Jennifer],? says Constance. ?It?s unfortunate he?s missing all this fun in our family, but the good thing is it?s keeping my daughter?s mind occupied...
George Jacobs spent 15 years as FRANK SINATRA'S valet. And they were very good years. But they're over, and now he's spilling his guts in a new book, Mr. S. The highlights? Sinatra's affair with then underage Natalie Wood; third wife Mia Farrow's annoying him by talking to her deaf cat Malcolm in sign language; J.F.K.'s snorting coke with Peter Lawford; and the Chairman's donning special underwear--"a cross between a panty girdle and a jock strap"--to restrain his massive, uh, endowment. Guess there's such a thing as being too Frank...
...ground in entertainment [TELEVISION, May 5]. In 1935 radio listeners were enthralled when Major Bowes' Amateur Hour hit the airwaves, followed by cross-country tours featuring its finalists. A very popular winner was the singing group the Hoboken Four, which featured a 20-year-old, blue-eyed vocalist named Frank Sinatra. MARK NEW Hillsborough...