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NAMES IN THE NEWS

          ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT's Mark Steines reported that
     JAMES CAHN, ADAM SANDLER, BEN STILLER and JOHN F. KENNEDY
     JR. were "among the courtside celebrities who scored the
     $2,500 tickets to Game Four" of the NBA Finals at MSG
     Wednesday.  Steines: "With demand for seats at an all time
     high, some stars were turned away" ("ET," 6/24)....BILL
     STORER, President of Business Golf Strategies, a company
     dedicated to teaching executives to use golf outings as
     sales tools, was interviewed by CNNfn's Lauren Thierry on
     "Business Unusual."  Storer: "The golf course, in my
     research, has proven to be one of the most effective types
     of client entertainment that sales people have available to
     them" ("Business Unusual," CNNfn, 6/24)....Former
     heavyweight boxer KEN NORTON is scheduled to open KEN
     NORTON'S RESTAURANT & NIGHTCLUB by August in CA, and the
     menu will include a "vodka/citrus juice concoction," called
     "Ken Norton's Knockout Punch" (O.C. REGISTER, 6/24).
          

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