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...surprising number of U.S. Whovians are women. Joan Paquette, 32, legal secretary in Boston, is attracted to Doctor Who's combination of bumbling charm and mastery of the impossible...
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...this entire year a band of treaty enthusiasts has traveled from Paris to San Francisco conducting small celebrations to remind as many people as possible about the legacy of 1783. None has been more dedicated than Joan Challinor, a Washington historian, who served as chairwoman of the National Committee for the Bicentennial of the Treaty of Paris. She appeared in Boston's Old North Church to talk to the faithful. She took a ride above Utah in a hot-air balloon dubbed The Treaty of Paris, the connection being that this is also the bicentennial of manned flight...
...AILING. Joan Miró, 90, protean Spanish painter of playful, dreamlike canvases; gravely ill with deteriorating respiratory disease; in Palma de Mallorca...
DIED. Robert Aldrich, 65, film director whose works of macabre-to-macho violence included the Bette Davis-Joan Crawford shocker What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), the Burt Reynolds gridiron prison melodrama The Longest Yard (1974), and The Dirty Dozen (1967), which at the time sparked complaints about its relentless brutality; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. Scion of a prominent New England family and a Rockefeller cousin, Aldrich rejected a banking career to start as a $25-a-week production clerk at RKO studios...