Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jan. 24, 1939 Chile...
...Jan. 13, 1915 Italy...
...then served as Executive for National and World Mission at Episcopal headquarters in New York City. He is the U.S. bishops' representative on the worldwide council of Anglican and Episcopal churches. A friend of Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, Browning has invited the South African black activist to his Jan. 11 installation as Presiding Bishop. Last week's Anaheim meeting ushered in the Browning era by voting for divestment of holdings in firms that do business in South Africa, and by expressing a readiness to have women as bishops...
...Jan Lewis, 35, is becoming the Dr. Ruth of Silicon Valley, dispensing insights over the phone to distressed inquirers in 15- and 30-minute doses. But Lewis' clients, mostly computerindustry executives and stockholders, are not seeking advice about their sex lives. For them, increasing compatibility means finding a better-suited computer hookup. Deciding if performance meets expectations is accomplished by analyzing stocks. In July, Lewis, a former employee of InfoCorp, a market-research company, decided that many computer firms needed counseling but could ill afford the big firms' high fees. Working out of her Sunnyvale, Calif., home, she formed...
...buying the rights to original recordings, rather than using made-for-TV imitations. The selections have ranged from '50s hits like the Coasters' Poison Ivy to recent numbers from Todd Rundgren, U2 and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The rest of the show's bracing musical score is supplied by Jan Hammer, a Czech-born composer, using sounds stored in a digital computer synthesizer. Working in a state-of-the-art studio in his 150- year-old colonial home near Brewster, N.Y., Hammer composes the score for each episode from a rough cut sent to him by network courier. That...