October 21, 1998

Herbert and Walter Glaser, owners of GAL Manufacturing Corp of Bronx, say they are happy with their location next to Yankee Stadium and disturbed at Borough President Fernando Ferrer's proposed renovation of neighborhood, which would replace their building with a parking and sports entertaingment facility; Ferrer says that plan is not final and that if it were to go through, GAL would get comparable or even superior location (M)

David Coulter, president of newly merged BankAmerica Corp, resigns, days after company stunned investors when it announced huge losses because of loan to hedge fund D E Shaw & Co; no successor is named (M)

New York Yankees defeat San Diego Padres, 5-4, to lead World Series, 3-0; diagram of Scott Brosius's two home runs in game; photo (M)

Lenny Bruce's last laugh echoes throughout ''Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth,'' a cleverly titled documentary recalling his life, work and punishing legal travails. In this intimate and affectingly nostalgic portrait, the lacerating comic emerges as someone whose talent and long shadow have unequivocally withstood the test of time. The dirtiest jokester of the 1950's and 60's still sounds as fearless here as ever, while his appalled enemies appear small-minded and quaint. And Lenny Bruce's notoriously raw humor takes on a rueful innocence beside the much more vulgar standards of comedy today.

CD-ROM on Holocaust produced by Steven Spielberg is introduced to students at Satellite Academy High School on Lower East Side of Manhattan, last chance public school for some of system's most difficult learners; disk recounts survival stories of Holocaust and its victims and is to be used as teaching instrument to allow difficult students to learn what survival and struggle really mean; photo (M)