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...very simple story, the most basic of fairy tales," says Sendak, the 74-year-old creator of the picture-book classic Where the Wild Things Are, but it spoke to a "situation that has been part of my flesh and blood and bones my whole life." The son of Polish-immigrant Jews, Sendak had a childhood marred by a "dense, terrible aura" of the Holocaust, as news of perishing loved ones hung over the family home...
...DIED. IRENE GUT OPDYKE, 81, Polish-born author whose 1999 memoir, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, told how she saved the lives of 12 Jews during World War II by becoming the mistress of a 70-year old German officer; in California. Opdyke-a devout Catholic-later said, "It was a small price to pay." In 1982 she was recognized by the Holocaust memorial in Israel as "Righteous Among the Nations," the highest honor awarded to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews...
...Swedish pop stars Hanna and Magdalena Graaf, who these days devote themselves to helping street children in India. What awed us most about the night wasn't meeting famous heroes. It was hearing from the unsung heroes about the impact being recognized in TIME has had on their work. Polish homeless advocates Barbara and Tomasz Sadowski told us that TIME's coverage is helping them in their fight to pass a new law designed to create job opportunities for the unemployed and homeless. Yiannis Boutaris, who was Greece's most famous vintner before he devoted himself to animal rights, told...
...during the summer prior to his senior year, Nowinski and a group of his teammates—including his partner in the famed “Polish connection” defensive tandem Isaiah Kacyvenski ’00—remained in Cambridge to train for their upcoming season in DeWolfe...
...Rose Bowl or the 1968 World Series could have much value? Brian Bedol did. As a developer of Nickelodeon's all-rerun Nick at Nite sitcom programming in the early 1980s, he had proved, as he puts it, that "once you take something out of the attic, polish it and put it on display, it becomes an antique." So in 1995 Bedol created the Classic Sports Network and showed that the allure of sports TV is more powerful than most people imagined. ESPN bought Classic Sports in 1997 for $180 million, with Bedol making millions (he won't be more...