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LEAD: Forty artists, architects and designers tried their hands at creating an updated flag for New York City. While no new Betsy Ross emerged, their whimsical efforts will be auctioned on Wednesday evening, April 13, to raise funds for a historic-marker program.
LEAD: Emma Lewis doesn't hear bells and banjos when she looks at George Bush. She just gets a nice safe feeling inside.
LEAD: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ROY COHN By Sidney Zion. Illustrated. 284 pp. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart. $18.95. CITIZEN COHN By Nicholas von Hoffman. Illustrated. 483 pp. New York: Doubleday. $19.95.
LEAD: If the trivia question is: where is the other Statue of Liberty?, the correct answer is: atop Burton Handelsman's eight-story warehouse at 43 West 64th Street in Manhattan.
LEAD: NEARLY six months after Oct. 19, it is remarkably difficult to gauge the impact of the stock market crash. The nation's economy survives and grows. The terrible recession that collapsing stock prices seemed to promise has not materialized. And the riveting fears of late October have dissipated.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 30, 1988, covering April 3, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
INXS
Tiffany
1988Kam Chancellor, American football player[†]
Kameron Darnel Chancellor, nicknamed "Bam Bam Kam", is an American former professional football safety who spent his entire nine-year career with the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Virginia Tech Hokies prior to being selected by the Seahawks in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL draft. A four-time Pro Bowler, he was one of the key members of their Legion of Boom secondary. He also helped lead the Seahawks to victory in Super Bowl XLVIII. Chancellor retired following complications from a neck injury he suffered in 2017.
1988Brandon Graham, American football player[†]
Brandon Lee Graham is an American former professional football player who spent his entire 15-year career as a defensive end with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, earning first-team All-American honors in 2009. Graham was selected by the Eagles in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft with the 13th overall selection and the first from the Big Ten Conference.
1988Peter Hartley, English footballer[†]
Peter Hartley is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
1988Tim Krul, Dutch footballer[†]
Timothy Michael Krul is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL League One club Luton Town.
1988Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (born 1907)[†]
Milton Arthur Paul Caniff was an American cartoonist known for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]