European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes tuesday March 20,1990 faces a no place Many need help especially verbose letter writers from wire reports Ann Landers says a a lot of people need professional help a including those who write excessively Long letters to advice columnists. Landers said she skimmed through 1,500 letters on a flight Friday from Chicago to Seattle where she spoke to the Northwest women a show. L Etters on old themes like those from teen agers asking How to get More attention from a potential male can be Boring she admitted. And naturally she prefers letters that Are reasonably concise. Quot sometimes i la gel people who write 14 pages or so but those people Are probably psychotic though Quot she said. A i Tell them they need professional help. You know a lot of people need professional the ponies an engineering professor at Detroit s Oakland University says he has developed a computer program with enough horse sense to consistently pick winners at a san Franeisco arca race track. Dick Haskell who went to his first horse race less than a year ago said a friends suggestion prompted him to apply his knowledge of computers to picking the ponies. Computers in effect learn to read so they Are Able to scan texts and place the data contained in them in their files read checks and perform other similar functions. The idea is to a have the computer learn the rules automatically by examples of what has happened in the the Reading computer for example a figures out the rules to distinguish Between an a a and a if and so for racing the computer learns a the difference Between horses that have won and not Haskell receives computerized data from a Lexington ky., firm and feeds it into his personal computer. A a the computer then sifts through All the characteristics of the horse bloodlines Speed rider track length etc., then separates the past winners from losers then creates the rules that were present when the horses for Effort Dionne Warwick and Whitney Houston sing a a that a what friends Are for at an aids fund Raiser As co Host Chevy Chase listens. Seniors at Sharon mass High school wont have to take the dreaded final exams this year All because they got an a for Effort in combating cuts in the states education budget. At the student councils request the school committee voted to exempt the class of 1990 from the annual year end tests. Committee members said the seniors have proven their academic Mettle by combating budget cuts and fighting for funds during a rally at the statehouse. A children have to worry about things we never had to worry about when we were students a said committee member Nancy Rubenstein. Quot they have to worry about fighting for education. They deserve not everyone agreed. A i recognize that this is an outstanding class but i think this would be one More example of weakening academics a said superintendent John Maloney. As for the students they were Quot totally shocked that the committee agreed to their proposal. Said class president Susan Slater a i can to wait to Tell the kids at popular Jane Pauleyy a popularity has soared since her departure from the Quot today show and that has her worried. Quot most to stars Are larger than life a she said in the March 26 Issue of Newsweek. A but my guess is that viewers identify with me rather than stand Back and Admire. So you done to want to pump me up to be a great big Star because then you be changed me. This could be on Frank Audrey Hepburn teamed up with the new world symphony orchestra monday night in Philadelphia s Academy of music to Tell the Story of holocaust victim Anne Frank in music and words Hepburn narrated a from the diary of Anne Frank at its premiere the fun St of four a concerts for life Quot in Aid of the United nations children s fund. Frank a jewish teen Ager and her family hid for two years in an Amsterdam office building during world War ii before being captured by the nazis. She later died in a concentration Camp Hepburn said she identified closely with the girl who retained innocent Hopes for the world despite her own predicament. Hepburn was born the same year As Frank and lived in Holland during the War. Quot its a very very important piece of music a said the 60-year-old actress who collaborated with composer Michael Tilson Thomas. A i feel very privileged to be allowed to be the first one. A if the words of Anne Frank have lived this Long without it. They will live forever with this music a she said. Franks diary was published in 1947. Other concerts will be held in Chicago on wednesday in Houston on Friday and sunday before the . General Assembly in new York concert some of the biggest names in the music Industry turned out saturday night for a Benefit concert billed As the single largest fund raising event for aids. The a a that a what friends arc for concert at new York City a radio City music Hall was expected to raise Between $2 million and $3 million. Carly Simon Whitney Houston air Supply the eurythmics Dionne Warwick Jermaine Jackson Daryl Hall amp John Oates Patti Smith Milli Vanilli and Kenny g. Were among those performing. Proceeds from the concert will go to the Gay menus health crisis and other aids organizations. Executive director Jeffrey Braff said he was grateful for the fund raising Al fort. A a it a very exciting a he said. 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Dear mrs. . I see nothing inappropriate about your wish to be Laid to rest in a Beautiful silk or Satin Nightgown. According to a spokesperson from Forest Lawn cemetery in los Angeles there is nothing unusual or inappropriate about that request. Morticians Are expert at preparing the deceased for viewing taking special care to avoid revealing anything that might be upsetting to the family. Dear Abby can to Tell you How Happy i was to Sec that letter from Quot Home alone a my husband takes Many business trips and i am constantly asked Quot Why t you go with him a i get so sick of that question first of All my husband travels for business i casinos and All his time is taken up calling on customers. I an not about to sit in my hotel room alone in a strange City. Often he flies into a City and checks into a to e near the Airport and does no to get near the heart of e downtown shopping area a or anywhere near e shopping malls. Besides while he a away on business trips 1 ban own projects a my Garden that needs tending Loo 1 b after our pets and i also baby sit our Little Grande u a if i were to travel with my husband id be More Lone. With him on trips than 1 am at Home. Another detail his company pays All his Trail expenses but if i were a tag along wife head have i for my travel out of his own pocket. So even though i too am a Home alone a lot. 11,111 neither lonely nor bored. There a plenty to do. 3 Content and c Universal press Syndicate
