Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truce between newspapers and television, which find themselves unhappily linked in the public mind as "the media." They are at best wary colleagues: one gets all the glamour and pay, while the other does most of the grunt work. Last month the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., brought the two sides together to discuss press credibility. There were a few sharp words. Miffed at the cracks about TV entertainment, Don Hewitt, producer of CBS's 60 Minutes, wondered about "all that junk"--advice columns, features, horoscopes--in newspapers. Eugene Patterson, a veteran newspaper editor...
Then there are the seasoned boys of summer: the Kids-Kubs softball league of St. Petersburg, Fla., where rookies must be at least 74 to don the white Good Humor man uniform and black bow tie. The team has its own special rules, Harry Rylee told TIME Correspondent Michael Riley. "You've got a couple of guys there that you could eat a sandwich while they're running to first base," muses the outfielder, whose brothers Morris and Michael play shortstop and infield. "But you can't tell 'em they can't play. That'd be like sticking a knife...
...pooches with an irregular heartbeat, there are human pacemakers. In St. Petersburg, the Pinellas Animal Foundation supplies donated human pacemakers to vets who request them for needy canines. Mrs. Florence Myers, 84, who once owned a dachshund, plans to donate her $8,000 pacemaker to the foundation when she dies. Says she: "I just feel it would be nice if someday some dog could...
...designed his first dress when he was a little old man of five, and his mother wore it to a St. Petersburg ball. Mata Hari was a client, as were the Ziegfeld Follies, MGM, various opera companies and magazines as disparate as Harper's Bazaar and Playboy. Now a little old man of 95, Erte still astonishes, as is vividly demonstrated by the delicious retrospective Erte at Ninety-Five: The Complete New Graphics (Dutton; 192 pages; $75). His work is generally labeled art deco, but his wit, imagination and irrepressible flamboyance suggest a more fitting appellation: art Erte...
...state. At the Tamiami Range and Gun Shops in Miami, classes have been booked solid since early June. "I'm just afraid of all the wackos out there," says Eliseo Santana, 29, a computer repairman who is applying for the permit. Adds August Zittel, a retiree from St. Petersburg: "I don't want to become another statistic...