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DIED. SHIRLEY POVICH, 92, irrepressible Washington Post sports columnist whose career stats--more than 15,000 articles in seven decades--made him the Cal Ripken of the beat; in Washington. Povich scored his first byline in 1924 and was soon a breakfast staple for Washington's sports addicts: President Nixon called his column "the only reason" to read the Post. But Povich's prose transcended the play-by-play; he championed such causes as integration, writing in 1946: "Four hundred and fifty-five years after Columbus eagerly discovered America, major league baseball reluctantly discovered the American Negro...
CONNIE CHUNG She's available That thing with Former CBS Evening (DreamWorks just Newt Gingrich's mom. News co-anchor canned her talk show with husband Maury Povich)--and likable...
...Bennett, a former Secretary of Education who is co-director of the conservative think tank Empower America, was joined at a news conference in Washington, D.C. by Democratic Senators Joe Lieberman and Sam Nunn. The group showed clips they deemed offensive on shows hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer and Charles Perez. The Oprah Winfrey Show was singled out as an example of acceptable programming...
ADOPTED. By CONNIE CHUNG, 48, TV newscaster (currently looking for opportunities), and her husband MAURY POVICH, 56, talk-show host; a boy, Matthew Jay Povich, her first child, his third; in New York City...
...This Morning, among others, were on the phone to the men's Boston publicist, Paul Dugan. There was much debate among the advisers about how high or low to go on the media food chain -- should the guys go for a slam dunk with a supersensitive host like Maury Povich or risk potentially tough questions on network programs? But not to worry. After accepting air fare and hotel accommodations to appear on Today last week, three of the Jenny Craig Eight, prepped like witnesses at the Simpson trial, came off like a bunch of wounded Alan Aldas, shocked -- shocked...