A KINDER, GENTLER REDS BOSS: JOHN ALLEN PROFILED ON CNN/SI

          Reds Managing Executive Officer John Allen was profiled
     in a "Page 1" report by CNN/SI's Paul Crane.  With Reds
     Owner Marge Schott serving a two-and-a-half-year suspension
     from the club's daily operations, Allen was approved by MLB
     to run the Reds in June and his original 60-day, interim
     running of the team has been extended through '98.  CNN/SI's
     Crane: "[Allen's] first task upon assuming command of the
     Reds was to win back the players.  His next task was to win
     back the fans."  Allen: "The message again was, 'I'm not
     going to be a puppet, things are going to change and we want
     the fans back.'"  Schott's suspension is scheduled to end
     after the '98 season, and Crane notes Allen's future "very
     much depends on Marge Schott's."  Allen: "I'm sure that she
     feels that I've betrayed her a little bit or that she can't
     trust me.  But what everybody has to remember is that in all
     cases I try and perform in the best interests of the ...
     Reds and the fans of the Cincinnati Reds" (CNN, 2/27).