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That put Harvard's lead at 8-2--only two runs away from putting Dartmouth out of its misery. The end was in sight...
...million boodle from Stella (that's the figure she divulged at a black writers' conference in Brooklyn, New York, in March). Viking is printing 800,000 hard copies of the book. Book-of-the-Month Club bought the novel two years ago, as one of its main selections, sight unseen, before it was even written. The movie rights for Stella have also been sold, for an undisclosed seven-figure bundle...
SENOR WENCES, 100, MANHATTAN; Ventriloquist from TV's golden age His guttural "s'all right" and squeaky "s'okay" have somehow remained part of the American comic vocabulary even as Senor Wences has faded from sight. Last week the ventriloquist quietly celebrated his 100th birthday with family in Manhattan before taking off for his customary half-year in his native Spain. Senor Wences was a staple on TV for three decades, starting on the Ed Sullivan Show, where he conducted absurd conversations with his dummy Pedro, his puppet Cecelia the chicken, or the blond-wigged Johnny, a face he painted...
...three decades of extraordinary accomplishment. Its economy had grown an average of 6.5% a year. By the 1980s, it had come to dominate the market for consumer electronics and semiconductors, and claimed the best automakers in the world. In the U.S., Japanese companies seemed to be buying everything in sight, from Rockefeller Center to Universal Studios. Over and over again, the question was asked in other countries, particularly the U.S.--What is Japan's secret...
Best of all, there's word that cable's Sci-Fi Channel may pick up the show for next year. The graybeards who have religiously taped every episode--and the recruits who will find laugh at first sight watching the new movie--can only hope that their favorite space travelers will be stranded up there for eons to come...