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...whole schedule on Thursday is much more open to attack by other networks," says Harold Vogel, an entertainment-industry analyst for Cowen & Co. All this is bad enough, but NBC also faces the possibility that ER will soon defect to another network. Now that Seinfeld is going, that would be truly calamitous for NBC, so the pressure to keep ER has become exponentially greater...
...DIED. HAROLD ("Hal") LIPSET, 78, private eye who famously put a bug in a martini olive; in the town that avidly tracked his gumshoe doings, San Francisco. Founder of the World Association of Detectives, Lipset demonstrated his electrical know-how for a Senate subcommittee in the 1960s with that oft parodied olive. Duly impressed, Washington briefly hired him as a Watergate investigator...
According to Superintendent Harold Murphy of the Cambridge Police Department (CPD), "Cops in Shops"--a program designed to reduce underage drinking--places plain-clothes police officers in and around liquor stores to guard against illegal purchases of alcohol...
...DIED. HAROLD GENEEN, 87, empire builder; of a heart attack; in New York City. During his 18 years as CEO of International Telephone & Telegraph (1959 to 1977), Geneen used some 300 takeovers to build ITT into one of history's most sprawling conglomerates, only to see a successor, Rand Araskog, strip down the company to its hotel-and-gaming core, which is likely to be sold...
...20th century: Einstein, Freud, Picasso, Churchill, Nehru. And then there was his conversation, which tumbled forth with amazing rapidity--he was once clocked at 400 words a minute--all of it gargled through the remaining traces of his childhood Latvian. When British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan proposed Berlin for knighthood in 1957, the PM suggested that the honor might be deserved "for talking...