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DIED. Margaret Hamilton, 82, character actress in 75 films and scores of plays who in her most memorable role, as the cackling, green-faced Wicked Witch of the West in 1939's classic The Wizard of Oz, became an incarnation of evil to generations of deliciously scared children; in Salisbury, Conn. Ironically, Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher before succumbing to the acting bug in 1932. She went on to portray dozens of stern spinsters, puritanical aunts and smarmy gossips, and was well known as the kindly storekeeper Cora in five years of Maxwell House coffee TV commercials...
Mouthing off comes naturally. Every time there was a talent show or a musical in school, I was always in it. Cinderella and the Wizard of Oz and Godspell and My Fair Lady: the ingenue role was always mine. But when there was a role for, like, a forward, bad girl, everybody sort of unanimously looked over at me when they were casting...
...Mobil took it over, the retailer earned $105 million in 1978, but it soon slipped into the red again. The company was too big, too mismanaged, too out of tune with what consumers wanted. In 1981 Stephen Pistner, president of Minneapolis' Dayton- Hudson department store chain and a retailing wizard, was brought in to turn Montgomery Ward around. He hired Brennan, then chief executive of the Sav-A- Stop outlets in Jacksonville, to help him in the task...
...unfunny, but because it's very nearly true: Whenever you read that someone in the Reagan administration is pragmatic, what you're really being told is that he is not crazy. Reporters have their ways of gauging such things. Let's say, for instance, that a new wizard of supply-side economics is received at the White House to demonstrate his theory that poverty can be eliminated simply by eliminating all tax on capital gains a theory he illustrates with an impressive array of graphs, even though his performance is marred a bit by his tendency to twitch uncontrollably...
...rumors about a takeover of CBS last week were turned into prime-time fare, the cast would ensure boffo ratings. Here is Ted Turner, the mustachioed buccaneer of the cable airwaves whose passion is to call another network his own. There is Ivan Boesky, a Wall Street wizard who spends millions to make millions. And don't forget Jesse Helms, the conservative North Carolina Senator who has suggested to his constituents that it would be nice if they were Dan Rather's boss...