Word: marye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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by Mary S. Lovell
On July 2, 1937, an aviator took off from Papua New Guinea for Howland Island in the central Pacific. She was on a round-the-world trip when she and her twin-engine Lockheed Electra lost radio contact and vanished into legend. Since that time women have become commercial pilots...
IMMEDIATE FAMILY. Glenn Close and James Woods desperately want a child; Mary Stuart Masterson is about to have one. Director Jonathan Kaplan's comedy-drama finds sympathetic laughter in everyone's burdens and opportunities. The tears come later.
Holtz, growing up scrawny along a crook in the Ohio River, where Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania converge and steel mills and potteries hunker cheek by sooty jowl, was not what you would call successful either. "Everybody felt so sorry for him," says Joe McNicol, a classmate at St. Aloysius...
Holtz avoided a lifetime sentence in the mills and went off to Kent State, where he played as a lightweight and little-noticed linebacker. After graduation, he learned his craft as a ubiquitous assistant coach in a succession of schools: Iowa, William and Mary, Connecticut. But it was after accepting...