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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starters, Susan, 16, the eldest of the Polgars, finished just one victory away from accumulating enough points to achieve grand-master status. Tied with Sweden's Pia Cramling, 22, as the world's second-ranked female chess player (behind the Soviet Union's Maya Chiburdanidze, 25), the teenager soundly thrashed six-time U.S. Champion Walter Browne, 37, on her way to a respectable showing of 25th in the top section of the tournament. Sister Sophia, 11, meanwhile swept to second place in the expert category. Finally, the baby of the family, Judith, a pudgy, self-confident nine-year-old, astounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Don't Play Around with the Polgars | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

This profound expression of universal brotherhood was penned by two men who combine the all American integrity of Wayne Newton with the political sophistication of Pia Zadora: Michael Jackson and Fionel Richie. Instigated by Band Aid organizer (and Boomtown Rats packleader) Bob Geldorf and produced by Quincy Jones, USA for Africa has more celebs per square inch than the Grammys. Recorded in a session inscribed upon destiny by Life magazine and a video crew, the song is lumped on old vinyl with a Canadian cousin ("Tears Are Not Enough") and some outtakes of other artists...

Author: By Charles M. Sneid, | Title: We Fooled the World | 4/11/1985 | See Source »

EXPECTING. Pia Zadora, 28, sex-kitten actress (next movie: a sci-fi musical comedy, Voyage of the Rock Aliens); and Meshulam Riklis, 60, her industrialist husband of 6½ years and her biggest fan and promoter: their first child (he has three children by previous marriages); in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 14, 1984 | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...fluff, a p.r. agent's dream. "We're not curing cancer," says Co-Anchor Hendren. "We want to have fun with it." John Goldhammer, senior vice president at Paramount agrees: "We're not out there to nail people." And except for an occasional sitting duck like Pia Zadora, they never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Turning Show Biz into News | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...Princeton raised the Crimson's record to 13-7 over all and 5-1 in the Ivies. The Tigers dropped to 13-3. Princeton's only other losses were dealt by Miami and South Carolina, both ranked in the nation's top ten Princeton played without number two player Pia Lamayo, who has played for the Phillipines Federation Cup Team and is currently in jured. Harvard must now await an NCAA committee's decision in hopes of receiving an invitation to the national championship tourney...

Author: By Mohammed Kashani-sabrt, | Title: Netwomen Top Princeton Clinch Tie for Ivy Title | 5/5/1983 | See Source »

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