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Grabbing
The Headlines
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Friday, October
1, 1999 |
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It's one thing for a woman to be related to
Winston Churchill. It's another to look like the former prime
minister. So Arabella Churchill is going to put some distance
-- surgically -- between herself and her famous grandfather.
And we all get to watch. By early next year, a suburban Chicago
doctor will perform a face lift on the 49-year-old Arabella Churchill,
an operation that will be broadcast live on the Internet. "She
does look somewhat like Winston Churchill, and as she ages is
starting to look like him more and more," Steven Bloch of
Highland Park said. Bloch will perform the nearly four-hour operation.
He will do work on her upper and lower eyelids, a full face lift
and laser touch-ups around the neck, mouth and eyes.
Sold! Goo-goo-ga-joob. The lyrics for John
Lennon's "I Am the Walrus" sold for $129,000 in an
auction at Christie's on Thursday in London. The lyric sheet
contains 20 lines of the 1967 Beatles classic and was sold to
an anonymous telephone bidder. The sheet contains Lennon's notes
and changes, including the deletion of the word "policeman,"
which was changed to "priestess." The lyrics are believed
to have been inspired by the Lewis Carroll poem "The Walrus
and the Carpenter." George Harrison's 1962 Rickenbacker
guitar also went to an anonymous bidder for $92,900. Opened:
The first bank to target a national homosexual market, in Pensacola,
Fla. G&L Bank -- the initials stand for gay and lesbian --
will begin doing business Oct. 11 on the Internet.
Launched: A plan by Pizza Hut Inc. to put its
new logo on a Russian rocket carrying a piece of the International
Space Station. The 30-foot ad will be slapped on a 200-foot Proton
rocket scheduled for a mid-November launch from Russia's space
city, Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Arrested: A school district groundskeeper after
a search of his San Clemente, Calif., home turned up a stockpile
of assault weapons and 50,000 rounds of ammunition. Investigators
had served a warrant at Jerry Peacock's house Wednesday morning
to search for maintenance equipment allegedly stolen from the
district, authorities said.
Today's Birthdays:
Actor Walter Matthau is 79.
Former President Jimmy Carter is 75.
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