Richard Phillips

Peter Townshend and Roger Daltrey made noise. Simon and Garfunkel made up. But induction night at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame belonged to songwriter Hank Ballard, who waited...

That medical study linking coffee drinking to longer sex lives sure won`t hurt coffee-house business around here. But along the English Channel, where high tea and inhibitions are quite proper....

He earns a lot of lettuce from your salad days, but Paul Newman nonetheless is willing to share his celery. His Newman`s Own Inc. in Westport, Conn., earned $7 million...

As how-to books go, one by New York`s Mayflower Madam has automatic sex appeal. ''Mayflower Manners: Etiquette for Consenting Adults,'' by Sydney Biddle Barrows, probably won`t be a coffee-table centerpiece....

. . . pressing engagement. So says Miss Manners, who nonetheless is dizzy from social whirling. She wishes corporate bigwigs would have the good grace to drastically curtail Washington`s ''pseudo-social''...

At a production of ''Anything Goes'' in Cincinnati, several things went: an `87 Nissan, an `89 Plymouth. . . . Three playgoers discovered too late that a uniformed carhop near...

Still crossing his T`s (as in tax) and dotting the I`s (as in intuition) is ex-IRS commissioner Sheldon Cohen, who headed the agency through much of the `60s. Asked to...

That fresh-brewed aroma wafting over Sanka is called truth in advertising. Thanks to Mary Ann Walsh of Massachusetts` Consumer Affairs Office, General Foods has consented to inform viewers that its...

Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic wants to serve his country again-in politics. But before enlisting, the hero of ''Born on the Fourth of July'' needs encouraging words. ''I cannot make this...

The priest who married Pat Sajak to Lesly Brown clearly is a man of the `90s-the 1890s. He intoned that a good wife remains silent and maintains a clean house....