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...about smart networking and sharp dealing, snaring the trophies you want by trading your duplicates rather than forking out cash. Dedicated pinheads have been known to loiter in the lobbies of five-star hotels at checkout time, hoping to talk corporate Games visitors into parting with their "guest pins" before they head to the airport - where other pinheads may be lying in wait. And the game is getting bigger: During the Atlanta Olympics, an estimated 3 million pins changed hands...
...Kling, a 53-year-old tennis coach from Pacific Palisades, Calif., has been to six Games and has more than 20,000 pins, which cover his office walls and sparkle in custom-made display cabinets. A fellow trader comes up to gloat, having snapped up a sought-after NBC guest pin. "So what did you have to give up?" asks Kling. "If I told you, you'd die," his friend replies with a self-satisfied grin. "They took a UPS [corporate pin]." There's a pause as Kling shakes his head. "Jesus," he says, visibly impressed. The day before, Kling...
...Golden Age. As the novel opens in 1940, F.D.R. is shown secretly maneuvering the country toward a war in Europe that the people would, if consulted, totally reject. Sanford's Aunt Caroline, a major character in Empire and Hollywood, is a friend of the Roosevelts and a frequent guest at the White House. She is charmed by the President but also chilled by what she sees as his inexhaustible deviousness. "There is a curse on power," she blurts out to the First Lady. Mrs. Roosevelt replies, "Not when used for others, or so I like to think." And then Caroline...
DIED. BEAH RICHARDS, 74, Oscar-nominated actress who this month won an Emmy for a guest appearance on The Practice; of emphysema; in Vicksburg, Miss. Richards received her Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. A poet, playwright and minister's daughter, she once said, "I always relate the theater to the church... Like the church, the theater must always be an exploration for truth...
...vice president inherited his father's relationship with Hammer - as well as taking over a piece of land the oil magnate had sold his father in a lucrative sweetheart deal - and dined regularly with the oilman in Washington during the '80s. Hammer was Gore's guest at the Reagan inaugural in 1984, and the then-senator also got him a prime seat at the Bush inaugural four years later...