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BORN. To Larry Holmes, 32, world heavyweight boxing champion who calls himself "the world's baddest heavyweight," and Diane Holmes, 28: their fifth child, first son; in Easton, Pa. Name: Larry Jr. Weight...
...months ago, Nancy Galvach, a restaurant owner from East Oakmont, Pa., visited the factory-outlet center 210 miles away in Reading and spent $573 on discounted clothing. Back home, she checked prices for the same goods in local stores and found that they would have cost her a total of $1,290. Today Galvach is planning shopping tours to help other people in her area share in the bargains...
...this empurpled mode, relentlessly maintained throughout the novel (her 14th), that Oates has undertaken to recount the saga of the five nubile Zinn sisters of Bloodsmoor Valley, Pa., circa 1880. For these young ladies, the trajectory of love follows the customarily lunatic lines of an Oates romance. The youngest Zinn, Deirdre, is snatched away by a stranger in "an outlaw balloon of sinister black-silken hue" as she sits crocheting in a gazebo. Sister Malvinia escapes the toils of Victorian family life in her own way: she makes a career as an actress and is courted by a singularly repulsive...
DIED. John Gardner, 49, prolific author of stylistically adventuresome fiction, enthusiastic teacher and, sometimes, messianic literary critic; of injuries sustained when he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed; near his home in Susquehanna, Pa., four days before he was to have married for the third time. A philosophical fabulist, Gardner wrote a dozen novels (among them, Grendel, 1971; The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972; October Light, 1976) in which he examined age-old questions like freedom vs. license through the prism of a gothic imagination that he said was set working by "the world of Walt Disney. I see those Disney...
Lois Brommer made her Crimson debut with style, smashing the course record with new mark of 17:50.46. The Mechanicsbury, Pa-freshman lived up to her sterling national ranking among cross country runners with a hard fought victory in humid, 70 degree weather. Dogging her every step was sophomore Jenny Stricker, who held on throughout the fully 3.1 mile course to finish second with a 17.52 clocking...