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...mean that you can't take off," he retorted. "I mean, look at the shuttle program. Every now and then one blows up. But they keep on going, Bubba. We might have a bad year or two. But overall it's going to be up and away, like Superman...
...high school heroes were thought to be. There was music in that name; even he said it sounded "made up." He was a country boy in the big city. He came along at a time when the TV set became the centerpiece of the living room. He was Superman in pinstripes. The eternal debate as to who was the best centerfielder in New York City, Mantle, Willie Mays of the Giants or Duke Snider of the Dodgers, was really no contest, even though Mantle personally deferred to Mays. According to Roger Angell, the peerless baseball writer for The New Yorker...
HOSPITALIZED. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 42, actor; for a broken neck and injured spinal cord; in Charlottesville, Virginia. Reeve, who leaped to stardom in the 1978 big-screen version of Superman, was competing in an equestrian event when his horse refused a jump and Reeve was thrown to the ground, breaking two vertebrae at the base of his skull. Reeve is on a respirator, paralyzed below the neck, but reporting sensation in his chest. Doctors will operate this week to prevent further damage to his spinal cord...
...DIED." CLARK KENT, 56, journalist; in an attack on Kent's family and friends; in Smallville. Following the discovery by supervillain Conduit (a.k.a. childhood friend Kenny Braverman) that Superman and Clark Kent are one and the same, the Man of Steel has allowed the world to assume-for now-that Kent perished in the Conduit-led assault...
...lung cancer; in Manhasset, New York. Boston-born Friedrich first hit his stride during his 1960s tenure at the Saturday Evening Post. During his subsequent years in the pages of Time and in his own nimbly crafted nonfiction, Friedrich emerged as an elegant explicator of just about everything: Superman, insanity, the pop art of Hollywood, the high art of pianist Glenn Gould, the collapse of German democracy, the demise of a rose garden...