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LEAD: A prominent lawyer and his law firm were held in contempt of court today for defying a judge's order to defend a reputed organized-crime leader whose own attorney had become ill during a 15-month-old trial.
LEAD: LINKS between compounds in the food people eat and the levels of certain chemicals in their brains are leading some psychiatric researchers to suggest that nutritional supplements might be used as psychiatric drugs.
LEAD: T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman, offered nearly $2 billion today to acquire the Homestake Mining Company, one of the nation's largest gold producers.
LEAD: In a turnout that veteran officers said was the largest they had seen at a police funeral, more than 10,000 policemen today mourned one of their own who was shot last week while guarding a narcotics witness in Queens.
LEAD: It seems very long ago that a 34-year-old former basketball star named Bill Bradley began a second career as a New Jersey politician.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 24, 1988, covering March 1, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
INXS
Tiffany
Michael Jackson
1988Trevor Cahill, American baseball player[†]
Trevor John Cahill is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Angels, San Francisco Giants, and Pittsburgh Pirates. The Athletics drafted Cahill in the second round of the 2006 MLB draft and he made his MLB debut with the A's in 2009. Cahill was an All-Star in 2010, finishing 9th in that year's AL Cy Young Award voting, and won a World Series title with the 2016 Cubs as well as a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He ranks among the top 20 active pitchers in career victories and has earned over 48 million dollars in his professional baseball career. Since his rookie year with the Athletics in 2009, his nickname was the Pterodactyl or the Dactyl.
1988Jarvis Varnado, American basketball player[†]
Jarvis Lamar Varnado is an American professional basketball player for Piratas de La Guaira of the Venezuelan Basketball League. Varnado is known as a defensive specialist and is especially adept at shot blocking where he's aided by his large wingspan.
1988Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (born 1907)[†]
Joe Besser was an American actor and comedian known for his impish humor and wimpy characters. He is best known for his brief stint as a member of The Three Stooges in movie short subjects of 1957–1959. He is also remembered for his television roles: Stinky, the bratty man-child on The Abbott and Costello Show, and Jillson, the maintenance man on The Joey Bishop Show.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]