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Kids love the gladiators because their shows are like real-life video games with living heroes. "I like the way the gladiators make it seem so easy," says Braxton Winston, 8, a Brooklyn fan who watches the TV show with his brother Brandon, 7. The boys' mother Stella is in favor too. "I like them liking the gladiators," she says. "They're good role models. They don't do drugs, they eat the right foods, they take pride in their bodies. They give the children something to strive...
...HEIGHT of the Vietnam War, Marius listened to Lyndon Johnson recite a paragraph of a Winston Churchill speech almost word-for-word. Marius's reaction: "I thought, 'That son-of-a-bitch! Not only is he a murderer, but he's a plagiarist...
...perfect. Harry, Martin writes, had extended relationships with Jean Dalrymple, a Broadway producer and theatrical agent and (platonically, it seems) with Mary Bancroft, who, among other accomplishments, had been a wartime spy master for the OSS. Clare's lovers, according to the author, included financier Bernard Baruch, Sir Winston Churchill's son Randolph and others (as the saying goes) too numerous to mention. Martin portrays Harry as a reluctant adulterer, consumed with Presbyterian guilt, who sought from other women the kind of feminine solace Clare could not or would not give. Clare, by contrast, is limned as a dazzling...
Lisa Valk, 41, knows TIME well. This will be her third tour with the magazine; as she said the other day, "It's almost like coming home." A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., she studied political science at Virginia's Hollins College, where she proudly serves as a trustee. After working as a hospital administrator in Boston, she enrolled at Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration and in 1979 joined TIME's circulation staff. Six years later, after stints with two of our sister magazines, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, she returned to TIME as circulation director, where she helped...
NCNB, which acquired First RepublicBank of Texas in 1988, has long coveted C&S/Sovran. The proposed merger came only three days after Winston-Salem's Wachovia Corp. agreed to buy troubled South Carolina National for $800 million. The deals probably foreshadow a new wave of acquisitions, even among such big banks as Chemical, Chase Manhattan, Wells Fargo and Security Pacific. Says analyst James McDermott: "The industry is poised for a massive round of consolidations...