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...Even a casual baseball fan knows that Aaron holds the all-time home run record, and baseball aficionados can easily tell you that Pete Rose is the all-time singles leader. But such renown has not followed the man with the most career triples. Ten points if you can name...
With such novels as Wise Virgin (1983) and Scandal, or Priscilla's Kindness (1984), English Author A.N. Wilson has won increasing renown as a satirist in the classic mode, a chronicler of lofty ideals and comic, mortal diminutions. His name has been mentioned in the same breath with that of Evelyn Waugh; comparisons to Barbara Pym have not been lacking. Readers aware of Wilson's reputation will naturally turn to Gentlemen in England expecting some laughs and intelligent fun. They will not be disappointed, but they may be surprised by the range of humors that arise in the course...
Leonard's wife Sheila, 34, a cook of high local renown, prepares all the trekkers' food in Stanley, then has it delivered to the huts by toboggan. Their partners are David Ayer, 37, a financial planner from Massachusetts, and his wife Lexa, 36, who split their time between Boston and Stanley. Ayer proposed to Lexa outside one of the Sawtooth yurts four years ago, after the third day of a five-day tour. It was -48 degrees F, and he wanted to see whether she had the right attitude toward touring...
...Year's Eve. Prisoners had been sleeping in gyms and administrative centers, and many, like Simerly, had been lodged in county jails to alleviate overcrowding. Construction of maximum-security facilities has not kept up with need. Brushy Mountain Prison in mountainous east Tennessee, which gained unwanted renown when Martin Luther King's killer James Earl Ray escaped in 1977, was last renovated 40 years ago. "Cottages" for youthful offenders, built at the village of Only during the 1970s, were converted to house vicious criminals, but soon became ungovernable warrens. Corruption spread. Former Governor Ray Blanton, now in jail for selling...
...Hollywood these days, writing the screenplays for three Spielberg films is probably the next best thing to being Spielberg himself. That makes 27-year-old Chris Columbus the hottest item since edible underwear in moviedom's town of renown...