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...October - even sooner if I get the chance." That taunting 260-word tape-recorded message was mailed to Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield of the West Yorkshire police in June. In it, the twisted murderer known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" vowed that he would soon add to his string of eleven brutal killings. Last week he kept his word...
...Harvard's defensive backfield is probably the only area in which the team could enjoy a reasonable amount of depth. Joe Restic shudders a bit as he says, "We can't afford to get anybody hurt. Our drop-off is so great (from the first to second string...
Connally has proved to be a phenomenal fund raiser, bringing in $2.2 million in the first half of this year, compared with Crane's $1.7 million, Bush's $1.5 million, Reagan's $1.4 million, and Baker's $643,000. His string of lavish money-raising fetes?usually gatherings of a wealthy handful at stately homes from Newport to Easthampton to Orange County, Calif, bring in up to $1,000 per guest, the legal maximum...
...circ. 3.2 million); of a stroke; in Manhattan. A shy 5 ft. 2 in. dynamo who said that not being noticed "is the advantage of being a shrimp," Newhouse got big in newspapers quietly. Beginning in 1922, he acquired a succession of rundown papers and turned them into a string of profit makers that stretched from Alabama to Oregon. In the 1950s he started buying already lucrative properties, among them Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue. His family-owned dominion (he had all the voting stock) now encompasses 29 newspapers (biggest: the Newark Star-Ledger and the Cleveland Plain Dealer), seven...
...escape from four walls is the street musicians' major incentive. "I just wanted to do music without any kind of reviews, sales pitches, verbiage or anything-just music," says John Thomas, who plays folk music and Bach on his six-string guitar for strolling office workers in Washington. Boston Cellist Paul Stouthamer senses that "people are revolting against mechanical power. They're looking for a cello, they're looking for a flute...