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...stuffed and mounted together and cried along with Simpson during the inductions at Canton, Ohio. As Namath searched the sky for a hangdog man in a houndstooth hat, the late Alabama coach Bear Bryant, he also shared the honors with Pete Rozelle, a football commissioner who once insisted Joe quit the saloon business. For some such mischief never revealed, Bryant kicked Namath off Alabama's team for the last game of the 1963 season and the Sugar Bowl. "Coach Bryant," Namath said, and his voice cracked like crystal...
Diana McLellan, who built quite a career on high-level gossip (she wrote "The Ear" column for the Washington Star and the Washington Post and then "Diana Hears" for the Washington Times), has quit after a decade of nibbling her way to the top. "Gossip is now on the front pages," she says wistfully. An amateur artist as well as a wordsmith, she has gone on to paint and write novels...
...Speedcall Corp. in Hayward, Calif., gives workers a weekly bonus of $7 for not smoking on the job. A study of the program in its first four years found that the number of smokers fell by 65%, and the number of health-insurance claims filed by those who quit went down by 50%. --By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York and Charles Pelton/San Francisco
Weisel, a Milwaukee native whose father played professional hockey while studying to be a surgeon, won several national speed-skating titles as a teenager. After studying economics at Stanford and earning his Harvard M.B.A., he helped form one San Francisco brokerage firm in 1967 and quit four years later to start the forerunner of Montgomery with three colleagues. By 1979 the tenacious Weisel had taken command of the firm...
...weeks before the race I quit all caffeine and alcohol,” said Woo, sticking instead to “stuff that doesn’t dehydrate you and doesn’t disrupt your rest patterns...