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...offense was keyed by senior co-captain Rick Offsay and senior Greg Marvin-Smith, who notched three goals apiece...
...does not peak too soon," she said. This time around, she found Pierce, a freshman at Georgetown University, to be on a commendable schedule of maturity. He appeared without a ripple--many pounds lighter and far more restrained--on Larry King Live with his grandfather Bush and uncle Marvin Bush. "Doro was Miss Shy," said Barbara about her daughter Dorothy Koch. "But this time, she was all over the place," at caucuses, on television, and when protesters cried "murderer" and "killer," she soldiered on, once being taken in tow by a concerned New York City...
...BILLY DAVIS, 72, singer-songwriter turned advertising executive best known for writing the '70s corporate anthem I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke; after a long illness; in New Rochelle, New York. Under the name Tyran Carlo, the Detroit native wrote R&B hits for Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and James Brown in the 1950s and '60s. In 1968 he moved to New York City to join the McCann Erickson ad agency, where he came up with the 1971 Coke theme song, which later became a pop hit. DIED. BOB EVANS, 77, computer scientist whose work...
...hands. She never edited out any of her mistakes, showing you how to fix them, live with them or bluff. She dropped stuff on the floor, wiped it off and said, "Remember, you're all alone in the kitchen, and no one can see you." She was the Lee Marvin of cooking...
...DIED. MARVIN RUNYON, 79, onetime auto-assembly worker who as Postmaster General from 1992 to 1998 pulled the U.S. Postal Service into the black; in Nashville, Tenn. Raising the stamp price only once (from 29¢ to 32¢), he cut 23,000 management jobs, hired more letter carriers and raked in $1 billion in profit. Runyon began his career in 1943 at a Ford plant in Dallas, where he climbed to the post of vice president before leaving in 1980 to become Japanese automaker Nissan's first employee in the U.S. As CEO of its American subsidiary, he built Nissan...