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DIED. Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., 82, founder-publisher of Look magazine; of a heart attack; in Southampton, N. Y. His father had built a newspaper empire, and after young Mike and his late brother John took over the flagship Des Moines Register, they began to buy radio stations in the 1930s. In 1937 the Cowleses launched a new picture magazine two months after the debut of LIFE, and Look, too, quickly became a financial success. He followed up, however, with a string of magazine failures. In 1971, battered by advertising losses to TV, Look went under. With the family newspaper...
...have any legislative strategy for more than about three weeks ahead. More generally, one long time Reagan aide asserts, "In the first term, if there was a need, say, for a sophisticated three-month plan for how to use the President's time to achieve some particular goals, Mike Deaver would take four or five people and go at it half the day. That just doesn't happen...
...year in his prime, would be stunned by what baseball players earn today. Since 1976 the average salary in the major leagues has jumped from $44,000 to $360,000 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED estimates that at least 36 players will make $1 million or more this year. Mike Schmidt, the Philadelphia Phillies' slugging first baseman, tops the list with $2.13 million. Salaries in other sports are also reaching the stratosphere. Doug Flutie, the quarterback for the New Jersey Generals of the U.S.F.L., has a five-year contract reported to be worth $7 million. Basketball experts expect that the New York Knicks...
...year ago many people in the arts, gay as well as straight, seemed to ignore what was happening around them. But when TV Producer Victoria Hamburg helped organize an AIDS Medical Foundation benefit in Manhattan, she quickly got help from Papp and the Shubert Organization, which lent a theater; Mike Nichols, who offered to direct; Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels, who volunteered to produce; and Phil Donahue, who came on as emcee. Performers filled the stage: Joan Rivers, Gregory Hines, Penny Marshall, Steve Martin, Randy Newman and the Weather Girls. The event, which took place May 19, raised more...
With no outs and a man on second in the eighth—a 2-0 Harvard lead just whittled down to one—the freshman made the short walk from third base to the pitcher’s mound to relieve starter Mike Morgalis...