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...Ever wondered what happened to the bee who used to sell tuna fish? Well, it bumbled over to RPI and became one of the stranger looking mascots in the league...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Tribute to Wild Wayne Cowley | 11/11/1988 | See Source »

Strange indeed, but hardly stranger than the identity of the questioner. If the administrator had been sitting before Mike Wallace or Ted Koppel, he might have been prepared for the tough, relentless probing. But his inquisitor was a precocious blond cherub of 13, Jonathan Zachary, who delivered his questions with a slight preadolescent lisp. Zachary is one of 16 youngsters featured in a new TV show called Children's Express News Magazine, an offshoot of Children's Express news service, which has been disarming public figures since it was founded for kids by New York lawyer Robert Clampitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Out of The Mouths of Babes | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...Squares have no definite plans in mind, but wouldn't argue if they became rich and famous. "If I could have my wish, we would be signed with a major recording label. You never can tell. Stranger things have happened," said Sagawa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

...CHARLES: JUST BETWEEN US (CBS). Sublime. When Charles sings Stranger in My Own Hometown, there doesn't seem to be a lonely corner his voice can't reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Oct. 17, 1988 | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...author provides a sensitive account of the editor's painful childhood, during which Rosenthal lost his father and three sisters to accident and illness and came perilously close to being crippled himself. Above all, Rosenthal is portrayed as profoundly insecure, a man who when casually asked by a stranger whether he was "an editor" at the Times, angrily snapped, "I am the editor of the New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Power at the Kingdom | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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