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...Harry Blackstone, who beat out the bigger names like Dick Cavett, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "I hate magicians," noted Sherrill Luke, a judge from Los Angeles, "but this man was very amusing." Forty-three hopefuls entered the amateur contest, fondly known as the Hal Holbrook Speaking Ladder because the actor who makes $20,000 each time he impersonates Mark Twain was discovered there. Nine contestants made it to the finals, where Edythe Bregnard, 63, the "Pixie Poet" of Sun City, Ariz., gave the winning speech, a whimsical look at aging, delivered partly in light...
...hero of World Series Game 3 in St. Louis was Veteran Second Baseman Frank White, Kansas City's most thoroughly homegrown player, who moved up to fourth in the batting order for the American Leaguers' odd year of nine-man baseball, when "Hired Hitter" Hal McRae became a designated sitter. A graduate of the defunct Kansas City Royals Baseball Academy, White was raised in the shadow of the old ballpark at Second and Brooklyn, but not to be a cleanup hitter. "When I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as the next guy," he said after smashing...
...called Woods' Nike clubs "inferior." Woods boiled. "It was a little sucker punch," says Fred Funk, this year's Players-championship winner. "That creates a bit of animosity between the guys." Mickelson apologized, but the bad blood spilled over to last fall's Ryder Cup, at which U.S. captain Hal Sutton paired Woods and Mickelson against European opponents. Although teammates, they could barely look at each other. It didn't help that Mickelson played like a Sunday hacker; when he sliced an 18th-hole drive into an impossible lie, Woods grimaced in disgust. But the dysfunctional dynamic is a gift...
...Hal S. Scott, Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems...
...show more contrition and attend a ceremony at Auschwitz on Jan. 27. This isn't the first time Harry's blunders have embarrassed the royal family. Last fall he socked a photographer outside a club; in 2002 he got caught smoking pot. Maybe, like the Prince Hal in Shakespeare's Henry IV, he's just setting himself up for a dramatic last-minute reformation. But then who will make Prince William look good...