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DIED. HAROLD E. STASSEN, 93, youngest Governor of Minnesota and eternally optimistic politician who made nine fruitless attempts to win the G.O.P. presidential nomination; in Bloomington, Minn. A political wunderkind, Stassen became county attorney at 23 and Governor at 31. Between stabs at the presidency (from 1948 to 1992), he continued a successful international-law practice, appointed the first black officer to the National Guard, helped charter the U.N. and served as president of the University of Pennsylvania and as a trusted aide to President Eisenhower...
JEFF BEZOS Amazon.com stock tanks. But this wunderkind CEO still richer than...
...turned on Imus in the Morning last Wednesday to find two middle-aged men on the verge of tears. Hamilton Jordan, the wunderkind behind the Carter presidency and the youngest chief of staff in history, was in the studio to promote No Such Thing As a Bad Day (Longstreet Press; $22). It's a book about his glory days in the White House and his inglorious ones, including the time he was falsely accused of snorting cocaine at Studio 54 and insulting the wife of the Egyptian ambassador by admiring her pyramids. But it is mostly a book about being...
...report on wunderkind actor (sort of) Leonardo DiCaprio [CINEMA, Feb. 21], Joel Stein managed in the nicest possible way not only to inform and entertain us but also to give the subject enough room to hang himself. DiCaprio is silly, shallow, ill informed about subjects he pontificates on, and very, very young--intellectually and emotionally. But these are not indictable offenses. DiCaprio has shown himself to be a fine young actor in some films. I won't see The Beach until it comes out on video, but I will continue to read Stein faithfully. CHRISTINE ROSANIA Chicago Heights...
...Baby Janice? over there," Tony says when Pavarti/Janice offers to care for Livia) and far deeper and more complex than most "quality" dramas. And yet its greatest indictment of TV may be that there is nothing unique about the people who make the show. Chase, 50, is no wunderkind; he kicked around TV for decades, doing fine but hardly epochal work on The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away and Northern Exposure. His writers include TV pros who have slaved on noodles-and-catsup fare like Providence. If it's sad to think The Sopranos is an anomaly...