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DIED. PHIL HARRIS, 91, singer, bandleader, comic, of heart failure; in Rancho Mirage, California. Harris' hepcat persona was a fixture on radio in the '40s on the Jack Benny show and, for a time, in partnership with his wife Alice Faye. In 1947 he had a hit song with Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette). Today, he's known to the vcr generation as the voice of Baloo the Bear in Disney's animated Jungle Book...
DIED. GINGER ROGERS, 83, movie star; Rancho Mirage, California. She was a young but scrappy veteran of more than 20 films and shorts, he a neophyte with one movie and a screen test behind him when they first danced together in 1933's Flying Down to Rio. Before the decade was over, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire had become the most famous pair of dancers that would ever cut their way across a high-gloss floor or up a spiral staircase. In the memorable words of Katharine Hepburn, the pairing gave him sex and her class-yet Rogers' own singular...
Ginger Rogers, the 1940 Oscar-winner best remembered for dancing cheek-to-cheek with Fred Astaire in a string of glittering, Depression-era musicals, died at her home in Rancho Mirage near Palm Springs. The pair first danced during Broadway rehearsals for "Girl Crazy," a 1930 Gershwin musical. Her close friend President Reagan (in an uncredited paraphrase of a Gloria Steinem one-liner) said in 1986: "Her male counterpart got the lion's share of publicity but Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and did it with high heels on, and did it backwards...
...minors this week there will be few millionaires but no shortage of baseball. The 222 teams competing in the 20 leagues sprinkled across the landscape from Portland, Maine, to Rancho Cucamonga, California, are scheduled to play more than 500 games during that seven-day stretch. The games in the rookie leagues may draw as few as 500 fans; in Triple A the crowds average between 5,000 and 7,000. "The minors are not a get-rich-quick scheme," says Bob Sparks of the National Association of Professional Leagues, which oversees all but one of the leagues. The minors...
...sophisticated electromyography equipment that charts the activity of muscle and nerve cells in order to design exercise regimens tailored to each patient's particular weaknesses. The approach is almost the exact opposite of "use it or lose it." Says Dr. Jacquelin Perry, director of the pathokinesiology center at the Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center in California: "By decreasing the demand on these overworked neurons, we can extend their life...