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...theme song when you enter the ring. The nicknames. (Where else could a middle-aged white guy be called "Baby-Faced Assassin"?) The sport has become ubiquitous enough that it's reached the agony-aunt columns. In June a woman wrote in to the Daily Star newspaper's "Just Jane," terrified her banker boyfriend was going to get hurt boxing. Jane's advice: "Once your pretty-boy boyfriend has been seriously whacked a few times, I'm sure that he won't find this 'white-collar' boxing quite so funny." Not likely. Most display their injuries at least as proudly...
...spectacle Hell's Angels, the flick that made Jean Harlow a star. Two years later, Hughes produced the best and most brutal of the early gangster dramas, Scarface. After a decade-long vacation from films, he made The Outlaw, a notorious Western whose main point of interest was Jane Russell's bosom. By the mid-1950s, he had run a major movie studio, RKO, into the ground. Then he vanished into eccentricity...
...that he has been hanging out with the wrong political crowd. He ought to quit spurning the hand of welcome and start working toward a liberal majority. It will be better for the country, better for the environment, better for the economy and better for him. JANE SMILEY Carmel Valley, Calif...
...writer make her an ace detective, namely, her quick wit and her psychological acuity. Barron's cause is also aided by her deft marshaling of historical detail--the textiles alone (Sprigged muslin! Bombazine!) are worth the price of admission--and, of course, a dash of genuine erotic friction between Jane and the roguish Lord Harold. Barron is scrupulously faithful to the historical record, so we know that Jane will never actually get married. But shouldn't we let her--and Barron and ourselves--have a little fun along...
...DIED. JANE BARBE, 74, doyenne of telephone and voice-mail recordings, whose messages included "I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service" and "At the tone the time will be..."; of complications from cancer; in Roswell, Ga. Valued for her calm, friendly delivery and skill at cramming her messages into precise time constraints, Barbe--who also recorded weather updates and hotel wake-up calls--was heard some 40 million times a day during the 1980s and early '90s. "Vocally," she said, "I get around...