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...Private Ryan," Francie told me. "Funny to think that when the Army Air Force came to the rescue of Tom Hanks and his infantrymen, that was Dad. He never spoke about...
...Tom Deacon, director of catalogue exploitation for Philips Music Group in Amsterdam, is one of those people blessed with the sort of memory for facts usually on display when 14-year-olds argue football trivia with their elders. Ask Deacon about a recording of a composition by a particular pianist, and he will rattle off all the details: the record label, the date and place of the recording, possibly even the precise microphone placement for the session. It's also likely that the recording will be in Deacon's personal collection...
Anchors aweigh! A few weeks ago it was ABC's Peter Jennings with The Century, a stately, pre-millennium cruise through the past 100 years. This week NBC's Tom Brokaw launches The Greatest Generation (Random House; 390 pages; $24.95), an effusive tribute to the men and women who, tempered by the Depression and World War II, went on to build the prosperous society that their children and grandchildren take for granted...
...first breakthrough came when he landed a job as secretary and telegrapher to Tom Scott, a powerful overlord of the Pennsylvania Railroad. At 23 Carnegie headed Pennsy's Pittsburgh division and began to rake in a small fortune from outside investments ranging from oil to iron bridges. When he was 33, the rich young man privately lectured himself that his continued pursuit of wealth "must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery." Yet he couldn't abandon the money chase. "Put all your eggs into one basket," Carnegie once advised, "and then watch that basket." For him that basket brimmed...
Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner have produced the hit TV series The Cosby Show, Roseanne and 3rd Rock from...