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...terms today's gossip columnists "more professional than they used to be, more fact oriented, less careless, less reliant on hearsay." In Winchell's day, he notes, columnists ran more blind items in which no names were used, and thus were more apt to take a chance on a tip. Today's scribes are more likely to seek confirmation, though they will still rely on a hunch. Last fall Washington Times gossip writer Charlotte Hays heard that actress Kelly McGillis, who had signed for the season at the Shakespeare Theater at the Folger, was pregnant and would leave months early...
...running around the world at something like $1,000 a talking minute and has been certified as a top-drawer sidewalk superintendent for his presidential library, now a huge hole in the ground. He roams the 34th floor of Fox Plaza, high above Century City, trains binoculars on a tip of his Bel Air home, visible 3 miles away, and mutters dark incantations against a new high-rise going up in his field of view. He leans down with pride to show visitors the model of the Spanish-type library building to be completed in 1991 with deep vaults...
...definitely losing our community," said Watson, the founder and director of Drop-A-Dime, a program which alerts police of reported crimes through a community-operated tip line...
Padre Island also offers the vacationer some worthwhile excursions. Located on the southern tip of Texas, the island is less than an hour from the Rio Grande and Matamoros, Mexico...
...Crimson got close twice in the second half, led by Schernecker and Gilly--who combined for six three-pointers in the half--but Jackson wouldn't let Harvard back in the game. After a Schernecker bomb and a Ron Mitchell tip-in pulled the Crimson to within six, 60-54, Jackson hit a three-pointer from the left side. Following a rare four-point play by Schernecker, who tied a team record with six treys, and an end-to-end basket by Ralph James, Jackson burned the Crimson with another bomb from the left...