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...Riederer Bensalem, Pa...
JASON MILLER'S That Championship Season shows what the passing of 24 years can do to men who must have been something like those in Diner. In 1957, near the time that Diner's heroes talked, fought and married, a group of Scranton, Pa. high school students won the state basketball championship. Each year, four teammates hold a reunion with their former coach and attempt to recreate the hopeful, confident, if also innocent atmosphere of their high school days...
Eugene Coon has been a sheriff for twelve years, but for the first time in his career, he has refused to uphold the law. When 43 owner-occupied homes were to be auctioned last week in Alleghe ny County, Pa., because of delinquent mortgage and tax payments, Coon, who runs the monthly auction, stopped the sale. Said the four-term sheriff: "These are good people who have paid into their homes for years and years. I feel I'm on good legal ground in trying to help those who can't help themselves...
Charles A. Gilmore Harrisburg, Pa...
DIED. Jack ("the Dandy") Parisi, 83, natty, baggy-eyed triggerman for the infamous Murder, Inc. gang of the '30s who beat every rap brought against him save one: he served six years for narcotics trafficking; in Hazleton, Pa. Said one prosecutor of the tightlipped, Italian-born hitman: "If you hung him up by the thumbs for eight weeks, he might tell you his first name...