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Casey Stengel's linguistic heir, Sparky Anderson, calls it something else. "Managing is always saying 'I think,' never saying 'I know,' " says the Detroit manager, sunning in a grandstand in Lakeland, Fla., where the Los Angeles Dodgers are visiting. Then he delivers his wonderful annual capsule analysis of the Tigers. "I ain't kidding now. This is an outstanding baseball team that I'll match against anybody in baseball-front line. They'll take their hacks at you. But then, there's a problem. You got to get the other side...
Connolly's original partner in detection and the heir to his notebooks was James Fox, a British journalist who went on to reconstruct the crime and, after trips to Kenya and interviews with Lord Erroll's friends, produce a plausible murderer. His gift for narrative immediately carries the reader into a long-gone, closed world of privilege and debauchery. White Mischiefs authentic cast of characters is as satisfyingly repellent a crew as ever peopled Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh's novel of English predators on the loose in Africa...
DIED. Olivier Chandon de Briailles, 27, race-car driver, boyfriend of Supermodel Christie Brinkley, and heir to the Moët & Chandon champagne fortune; by drowning, when his 1983 Ralt Formula Atlantic spun out of control at 100-plus m.p.h. during a practice run, careered off the track, exploded and sank in a nearby canal; in West Palm Beach...
Spielberg was then presented with an E.T. doll, sporting heir...
BORN. To Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 31, portly President for Life of Haiti, and Michele Bennett Duvalier, 31: their first child, a son and heir apparent to the dictatorship set up by his grandfather Papa Doc; in Port-au-Prince. Name: François Nicolas Jean-Claude. Weight...