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To sell vitamins and shampoo to friends and neighbors, Sharon Killion Morton quit her job as an advertising sales representative for USA Today, where she made $110,000 a year and drove a company Mercedes-Benz. Bill Dorr, who lost his job as a Wall Street investment banker in a cutback, now peddles a discount long-distance telephone service to former co-workers.
Opposing a high-powered offense in a Super Bowl is not a completely unfamiliar situation for the Steelers' defensive coordinator, Dick LeBeau. Thus, LeBeau has not been squirming all week about the prospects of facing the Cowboys' massive offensive line, quarterback Troy Aikman's rocket arm, running back Emmitt Smith's powerful legs and receiver Michael Irvin's deft hands in Super Bowl XXX at Sun Devil Stadium. As the Bengals' defensive coordinator from 1980-91, LeBeau devised strategies to face San Francisco in Super Bowls XVI and XXIII. And although the Bengals came up short in both games, they were two of the closest Super Bowls in recent times. San Francisco beat the Bengals, 26-21, in Super Bowl XVI in 1982. In Super Bowl XXIII in 1989 the 49ers defeated the Bengals, 20-16.
THE TELEVISION NETWORKS MAY BE huge corporations. They may be bought and sold by other huge corporations. They may now occupy only a small fraction of available channel space in the growing universe of entertainment programming. But in the minds of the viewing public, they all have distinct identities, and they shed those identities at their own risk. Last fall, three of the four networks, it seems, were trying to be something they are not and never have been. For the most part, in their prime-time shows, the three were trying to be urban-hip NBC. Not surprising, none were as successful as NBC in that guise, as A. C. Nielsen pointed out quite clearly.
The Offense The Dallas Cowboys have their own convoy: an offensive line that weighs in at a mere 1,617 pounds.
ANOTHER speech, another $15,000 in the bank, and Fran Tarkenton was ready to head for the hills. Behind the wheel of his Jeep Grand Cherokee, with the hiss of tires on the blacktop, he visibly relaxed with each passing mile as he climbed into the stubby hills and tree-covered ridges of northeast Georgia.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 24, 1996, covering January 28, 1996.
Soundtrack
Mariah Carey
Alanis Morissette
Hootie & The Blowfish
Bush
1996Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1940)[†]
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in the United States with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at Mount Holyoke College, and at universities including Yale, Columbia, Cambridge, and Michigan. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity". He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.
1996Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist and author (born 1911)[†]
Burne Hogarth was an American artist and educator, best known for his work on the Tarzan newspaper comic strip and his series of anatomy books for artists.
1996Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator, co-created Superman (born 1914)[†]
Jerome "Jerry" Siegel was an American comic book writer. He was the co-creator of Superman, in collaboration with his friend Joe Shuster, published by DC Comics. They also created Doctor Occult, who was later featured in The Books of Magic. Siegel and Shuster were inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993. With Bernard Baily, Siegel also co-created the long-running DC character The Spectre. Siegel created ten of the earliest members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, one of DC's most popular team books, which is set in the 30th Century. Siegel also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter and Jerry Ess.
In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[†]