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...Ichiro Hattori, 55, the president of Seiko Epson, died on a golf course in May after suffering a heart attack. In eight years as chief executive, he had built Seiko from a watchmaking company into an electronics giant. But last year profits plummeted nearly 80% because of the high...
...play Starflight on his IBM Personal Computer. Jim Bonevac, a senior economist for the state of Virginia, likes to spend lunch hours playing APBA Baseball and other games on his Leading Edge computer. Peter, a San Francisco marketing representative, uses lunch breaks to get in rounds of Mean 18 golf on an IBM PC Model AT, although he feels guilty enough about fooling around on the company computer to shut off the game the moment he hears the boss coming...
...Indeed, it is with Charisse during the Dancing in the Dark sequence of The Band Wagon that he attained romantic apotheosis. That film brought him to another kind of culmination. He always liked to shed his top hat, white tie and tails and make magic with homely props -- a golf club, a hat rack, a handful of firecrackers. In Band Wagon, glum and lonesome, he entered an amusement arcade and emerged 6 1/2 minutes later, having completed the greatest solo dance in movie history, Shine on Your Shoes...
...Loyola College in Baltimore, a well-known husband-and-wife team, Bob and Dolores Hope, was awarded honorary doctoral degrees -- his 53rd, in acknowledgment of which he dropped a chestnut: "Now that I am a doctor, at least I can get on the golf course on Wednesdays." At Vassar, Playwright John Guare and his spouse Designer Adele Chatfield-Taylor both spoke, after flipping a coin to see who would go first. (She did.) In a boisterous, though notably erudite, bit of counterpoint to the family theme, graduates of Harvard's School of Public Health tossed into the air hundreds...
...whom he had one daughter, and somewhat less lovingly about his second, from whom he was divorced in the '50s. Right now he is concentrating on No. 3, the bubbly Joy Valderrama, 55, whom he married when he was a mere 96. In Florida, they are usually on the golf course or by a pool during the day and watch television at night. One of his favorite programs is The Newlywed Game, which, he says, gives him an insight into the lives of working-class Americans. He has a fond spot for his fruit trees -- grapefruit, orange and papaya...