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...loose change. Just around the corner at the Wash Factory, R.'s eight-year-old buddy "E." was hanging around in hopes of earning some spending money. More soft-spoken than R. but no less ambitious, E. made a routine of dropping in to help manager Shirley Blanton keep the place clean. "He was always willing to pick up a broom," Blanton says...
...which volume sales allow cheap prices. All other books they supply their customers are ordered from the same national distributors that many independent bookstores use. But as a plus, specialty bookstores have in stock many titles that Amazon and Barnes & Noble don't usually carry and cannot quickly acquire. SHIRLEY BLAKLEY Professional Book Sellers Nashville, Tenn...
Blockbuster's recent success bears that out. The company owned barely 25% of the rental market at the start of the year; now it has a 30% share, and Antioco expects to reach his goal of 40% well ahead of his five-year target. Shirley Poulekidas, a retiree in Chicago, will help him do it. "Anytime I've looked for a new release, it's been there--since they put that sign up," she says, pointing to a guarantee billboard...
...need baby boomers have to look back and understand where they've come from. This is especially so in light of the fragmentation of families. Genealogical pursuit, says Ralph Crandall, director of Boston's New England Historic Genealogical Society, "is an attempt to reconstitute the family, at least symbolically." Shirley Wilcox, president of the National Genealogical Society in Arlington, Va., acknowledges that "computers and the Internet are also responsible for fueling interest." Masses of material can be organized more efficiently with software programs such as Family Tree Maker, the Master Genealogist, Ultimate Family Tree, Family Origins and Personal Ancestral File...
...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...