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DIED. George Raft, 85, actor who epitomized the tightlipped, coolly menacing tough guy in such films as Each Dawn I Die (1939) and Mr. Ace (1946); of emphysema; in Los Angeles. A grade-school dropout who grew up in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, Raft took jobs as a prizefighter, a baseball player and an exhibition dancer before he was discovered by a director at Hollywood's Brown Derby restaurant and won the movie roles that led to his breakthrough in Scarface (1932). In his later years his career lagged, and he was barred from...
...Good Morning America's David Hartman. For a box that accompanies the story, Correspondent Mary Cronin tracked Hartman through a day in the life of a morning-show host, an ordeal that begins at 3:45 a.m. Cronin also interviewed Host Tom Brokaw and the rest of the dawn patrol at NBC'S Today show. One frustrating morning she awoke especially early to catch a ride into the studio in Jane Pauley's limousine. It was sent to the wrong address. Pauley got to work on time that day, but Cronin was forced to hail...
...Come quickly. I've just killed my wife ." The scene, and the supplicant huddled against the chill of a Parisian dawn last week as he pounded on a colleague's door were equally bizarre. Close by the doorway towered the stone walls of the 186-year-old Ecole Normale Superieure, an elite graduate school for the best and the brightest students of France. The agitated man in robe and pajamas banging at the door with his dire tidings was no less prestigious: Louis Althusser, 62, among the diminishing survivors of the country's great postwar intellectual...
...what keen-eyed observer in the dawn of history first picked out Saturn as a planet, or heavenly wanderer, from the dizzying background of myriad fixed stars. Probably the first stargazers to leave a record of Saturn's appearance in different parts of the night sky were the Sumerians...
...surprised when I stepped out into the fresh air, and saw the dawn drawing its curtains to reveal a beautiful gust of sunshine--sunshine that promised to increase as the day grew older...