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August Wilson's mom, a cleaning woman trying to raise four kids in the Pittsburgh slums, won a radio contest once. She named the product that went with the ad slogan "When it rains, it pours" (Morton salt), and the prize was a new Speed Queen washing machine. When the station found out she was black, Wilson recounts, his mother was offered instead a certificate for a used washing machine from the Salvation Army. Friends told her to take it anyway; it was better than the old washboard she was using to scrub her kids' clothes. But she refused. "Something...
...Yale campus. A polite, doughy-faced man, he likes the outdoors because it allows him to puff on his Marlboro Lights, but on this unusually hot spring afternoon, he looks a bit formal and out of place in coat, tie and newsboy cap. He grew up in Pittsburgh's predominantly black Hill District, dropped out of school in the ninth grade and set out to educate himself by devouring books in the library. One of the first was anthropologist Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture. "In my plays I sort of work as an anthropologist," he says, "finding those parts...
CAPTURED. Bernard C. Welch Jr., 45, convicted master burglar and murderer sentenced to 143 years to life after the 1980 killing of Washington Cardiologist Michael Halberstam; by police in Greensburg, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, who followed up a routine parking violation and ended a manhunt that began May 14, when Welch and a fellow inmate escaped from a Chicago jail while he was supposedly helping federal agents prevent a breakout planned by others. Found in a stolen car and in an apartment occupied by Welch were seven pistols, seven rifles and $500,000 worth of antiques, indicating that Welch...
...mayor in this century. Detroit's Coleman Young was re-elected to his fourth term and Cleveland's Republican Mayor George Voinovich was returned for his third term in a predominantly Democratic town. All three cities are enjoying economic revivals. Incumbent mayors also won easily in Minneapolis, Seattle, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Hartford...
...Harvard Business School, Author Mark McCormack, a leading sports and leisure consultant, likens the fiercely competitive corporate world to an athletic playing field. Seated at his office desk, McCormack offers tips on how to "seize the initiative" to come out on top. In one film clip, former Pittsburgh Steeler Quarterback Terry Bradshaw is shown on the sidelines during a game bragging to a teammate about how well he "read" the opposing team's defense. Another tape, based on In Search of Excellence by Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman, shows Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse leading a march at Florida...