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Almost everyone considered that a perfectly ridiculous idea. Since 1985, when he founded the company that would become America Online, Case has jousted continually with the doubters. Even his loyal board members lost the faith: in 1987, after a particularly rough patch, they were ready to fire him until someone argued that surely Case had learned something while spending millions without a penny of profit. Whatever that was didn't seem apparent as his online service hit rock bottom last winter, suffering through one gaffe after another--remember the mess over busy signals?--leaving Case exhausted and his critics smirking...
DIED. LEO JAFFE, 88, successful Columbia Pictures chairman who helped steer the studio past the rough shoals of a 1970s financial scandal involving Columbia's president; in New York City. Hits during his tenure included Kramer vs. Kramer and Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
...theatrical rendition of The Thunder Rolls, a song that ends with a woman reaching for a pistol to kill her cheatin' man ("Tonight will be the last time/ She wonders where he's been"). Whew! With crime rates dropping in the Big Apple, Brooks may be a little too rough for the city slickers...
...that decision than she. In New York, a more germane question for the press would be whether the mayor's wife should give up the first lady's staff, budget and car if she's unwilling to act as first lady. Just maybe the Giulianis are in a rough patch. If they're lucky, they'll work it out. Maybe we should let them try. In peace...
...same age as Sarah, 29, and was starting to feel old and out of touch with the rough-edged music scene. Now I can listen to the radio again! ELIZABETH VAN RIJ London...