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FRIDAY THE 13TH PART...
Shakespeare catered to popular taste by writing 10 plays dealing with English history from the 13th to the 16th century. Eight of these cover the near-century from 1398 to 1485, organized into two tetralogies. Shakespeare did not write them in chronological order, however, so it is the more accomplished of the sets that deals with the earlier period and most often reaches the stage...
BORN. To Sun Myung Moon, 62, self-anointed messiah and founder of the Unification Church, which claims 3 million members around the world, and his wife, Korean-born Hak Ja Han, 40: a daughter, their 13th child; in Tarrytown, NY. Name: Jeung Jin Nim (March of Heart). Weight: 7 lbs. 8 oz. Moon, also born in Korea, was convicted in May of conspiracy to evade paying personal income tax and is awaiting sentencing...
...daydream of an alternative self is a strange, flitting thing. This wistful speculation often occurs in summer, when a vacation loosens the knot of one's vocational identity. Why, dammit, says the refugee from middle management on his 13th day on the lake, why not just stay here all year? Set up as a fishing guide. Open a lodge. We'll take the savings and . . . The soul at odd moments (the third trout, the fourth beer) will make woozy rushes at the pipe dream. Like a gangster who has cooperated with the district attorney, we want...
...instant the fight ended, officially at 2:52 of the 13th round, blaring patriotic music came on the loudspeaker system, including the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The young men in Cooney's entourage, most of them grade-school buddies from Long Island, pressed together around him in his corner, and some of their eyes were redder than his. The sparrowlike head of Ray Arcel poked through the challenger's huddle, and Holmes' man whispered generously: "Don't get discouraged, Gerry. Keep trying. You're still going to make...