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...DIED. Pham Xuan An, 79, Viet Cong colonel who worked during the Vietnam War as a highly respected journalist for TIME while spying for the communists-a double life kept secret until the mid-'80s; in Ho Chi Minh City. The first Vietnamese to become a staff correspondent for a U.S. news outlet, An said he was an "honest reporter" who did not spread misinformation. From his unique perch at TIME's Saigon bureau, the popular, plugged-in An was able to achieve feats for both sides, alerting the Viet Cong to the impending buildup of U.S. troops...
...hunky Budapest-born athlete who immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1940s and rose to fame as a champion bodybuilder and actor whose films included Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, co-starring his then wife, screen siren Jayne Mansfield (together, at left); in Los Angeles. In the mid-'50s the newly anointed Mr. Universe--whose daughter Mariska tearily thanked her dad onstage last month when accepting an Emmy for her role on NBC's Law & Order: SVU--caught the eye of an aging Mae West, who hired him as one of eight loincloth-clad musclemen in her popular nightclub...
Grove has been agitating about health care since the mid-'90s, when his battle with prostate cancer--which he waged scientifically, as though trying to solve a heat-dispersion problem on a chip--opened his eyes to modern medicine's digital lag. "We are engineers," he says to the room. "We take the problem, decompose it and solve it." And not just any engineers, but engineers at City College--an up-by-your-bootstraps institution famed for offering the disadvantaged a gateway to the middle class. Grove, who slipped out of his native Hungary during the 1956 revolution...
...Piano Man's daughter ALEXA RAY JOEL, who's on tour to promote her first EP, Sketches. The offspring of Billy Joel and ex-wife Christie Brinkley, Alexa Ray, 20, hasn't quite found her stage feet: she fainted onstage while performing in upstate New York in mid-September. But one of the advantages of coming from a famous family is that you always have plenty of material (like, for instance, your mom's headline-heavy divorce). And Alexa Ray isn't afraid to use it. Her tune Now It's Gone is about her stepfather's affair...
...Captain Katie knew if a soldier was checking out Internet dating services, fighting with a spouse, fretting about bills, or struggling to knot a tie with one hand. She made a habit of staying up at night to acquaint herself with their personal stories and continuously updating them. In mid-November, she walked in on Sergeant Heath Calhoun on his first day on the ward. He was sobbing in the arms of his wife and questioning how he could survive after both of his legs had been blown off by a rocket-propelled grenade. Though uncomfortable at first, Katie stuck...