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...Alexander was 44 when he married Phyllis, who was just 21. He had been married before, to the sophisticated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. The Sun obit adds: ?As reported the next day in the Los Angeles Times, Lee bore him a son on the very day he and Adams were wed? - December 1, 1944. What neither paper mentions is that the child wasn?t Kirkland?s; it was Preminger?s. The boy was first called Erik Kirkland, then Erik de Diego. When he learned his father?s true identity, the young man took the name Erik Lee Preminger...
...golden girl, naturally, was on the side of quality. And to prove it, she had a McCall?s ?Mike? award, given to executive who had performing signal public service for women. She earned it in 1952 for her pioneering work producing intelligent TV - a mixture of ?Charlie Rose? and ?Oprah? - for American housewives...
...Greek brands were up 18% last year--and those going for the Olympics may hasten the trend. The wines are made from indigenous grapes unfamiliar to most Americans. Some to try: Moschofilero yields aromatic whites like Boutari's Moschofilero. Agiorgitiko is the grape in the herbaceous 14-18h Rose (the name refers to the number of hours the fresh grape juice remains in contact with the skins in fermentation). And the Xinomavro grape makes for velvety reds...
...suggest that some 70% of Hungarians are against the idea, and the incumbent party could face a stiff challenge in elections expected next year. Political pressure may also be building in Poland, a staunch ally that contributed 2,500 troops to the occupation. Opposition there to the Iraqi deployment rose from less than 30% after the fall of Baghdad to 75% after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal...
DIED. CARMINE DE SAPIO, 95, who ruled New York politics as the last boss of Tammany Hall; in New York City. He rose through the ranks as a messenger boy for political captains and ensured that the most politically deserving, needy families received their holiday food baskets. As head of the New York organization in the 1950s, he handpicked Robert F. Wagner Jr. as mayor and W. Averell Harriman as Governor and, some said, could have named the Democratic presidential nominee. But by the late 1960s he had been denounced as authoritarian, convicted of petty bribery and defeated in local...