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...Named Oprah. Jecquin Stitt triumphed in a Ladies' Home Journal Oprah Winfrey look-alike contest and won an invitation to appear on the celebrity's talk show next week. Embarrassed editors later discovered Stitt was a man (albeit one undergoing a sex-change procedure) but didn't revoke the prize...
...Bellotti supports the gay rights bill, but he won't let us in," said Queer Nation member David Stitt...
...popular additive. Today the taste and texture have vastly improved, and specialty breads remain a valuable source of complex carbohydrates and fiber, free of preservatives and chemical additives. "People have discovered that from real bread you get more nutrients for the fewest calories, for the fewest dollars," says Paul Stitt, president of Natural Ovens of Manitowoc in Wisconsin. Some of today's producers make health benefits a key selling point. Schripps in New Jersey, for example, exuberantly describes its Slice of Life loaf as containing "16% roughage, which regularizes the digestive system, preventing or relieving constipation...
When he was still a lonely high school kid in Martins Ferry, Ohio, the factory worker's son who would later become -- in Critic Peter Stitt's phrase -- "one of the very great heroes of American poetry" used to drop by Margret Ashbrook's house and slide his poems across the table for Margret and her mom to see. "He showed us a poem that had the word slob in it, and we told him that was an unpoetic word," recalls Margret. "But he said that's how it is, and that's how he feels, and that...
This year's James Wright Poetry Festival (the seventh to date) attracts nearly a hundred participants for a night and a day of commemorative talk. The opening session, at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling, finds Wright's widow quietly reading from his letters and Wright Biographer Peter Stitt delivering several of the landmark poems in a clipped, dry, ironic voice, praising the poet's deft humor and his bottomless affection for "the unnamed poor...