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...composer had no love for him. This was Harry Warren, the Italian-born song-plugger who became Hollywood's top song-maker. In 1944, during the Allied air assault on Germany, Warren snapped, "They bombed the wrong Berlin." Edward Jablonski, Berlin's biographer and a confidant for many years, attributes the slur to jealousy "at a time when Warren's own Hollywood career was in decline." This is way off: Warren had five #1 songs in the 40s (including "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe"); Berlin had only one (all right, it was "White Christmas...
...just might be that good. The revenge of Curtis Martin and a Meadowlands full of Big Apple faithful salivating over the prospect of a postseason without John Elway ought to cover this fleshy spread without too much nail-biting. Parcells will miss injured plugger Wayne Chrebet ? but not this week...
DIED. JOHN EHRLICHMAN, 73, pugnacious Nixon domestic-affairs adviser and leak plugger who was imprisoned for his role in Watergate; after a battle with diabetes; in Atlanta. Disbarred for his crimes, which included planning the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist who treated Vietnam War critic Daniel Ellsberg, Ehrlichman later wrote novels, worked at an engineering firm, and often insisted the scandal was overblown...
...Tampa Bay: Warrick Dunn, RB, Florida State. The Bucs have Errict Rhett, who is a plugger but not a homerun threat. So they will take the small (5'8", 180) but phenomenally explosive Dunn, who catches the ball well. I love this guy's attitude-he's been like a father to his siblings since their mother, a New Orleans police officer, was killed in the line of duty four years...
...haven't the loopholes all been sealed shut? Sure, every tax bill from 1934 to 1993 has been hailed by Congress as the ultimate loophole plugger, but somehow there are still enough of these little leaks to drain off billions from the public treasury. Among them: luxury homes in which nothing goes on but "business," or tax dodges like the Beverly Hills Gun Club, which provides substantial paper losses for investors like Sylvester Stallone...