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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Pauline Friedman Phillips, who as Dear Abby dispensed snappy, sometimes saucy advice on love, marriage and meddling mothers-in-law to millions of newspaper readers around the world and opened the way for the likes of Dr. Ruth, Dr. Phil and Oprah, has died. She was 94. Phillips died Wednesday in Minneapolis after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, said Gene Willis, a publicist for the Universal Uclick syndicate.
...was committed." So learns Benjamin Duffy, in "Mr. Commitment" (Doubleday, 389 pages, $22.95), British advice columnist Mike Gayle's tongue-in-cheek novel about modern relationships. Duffy has the perfect girlfriend. She's...
...major golf championship when the U.S. Open begins June 14. Sisters got plenty of advice OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Advice columnists Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren say they could always count on advice from their big sister -- whether they wanted...
...most of the duties in the early 1990s. The column appears in more than 1,200 newspapers around the globe, according to Universal Press Syndicate. The elder Phillips' twin sister, Eppie Lederer, is the advice columnist Ann Landers.
...Eppie, tackled issues such as homosexuality, abortion and AIDS in the column. "She was the gold standard for advice columnists because she took it seriously," Howard said. "She made it her business to be very serious." Lederer's twin...
...publicly on the death of her twin sister and fellow advice columnist, Esther Lederer, better known as Ann Landers...Lederer's daughter, Margo Howard, is also an advice columnist under the name "Dear Prudence" for the Microsoft-owned...
...boyfriend and hid his body in the basement of their house has publicized her defense in a letter to Dear Abby. The advice columnist, syndicated to 1,300 newspapers nationwide, published a letter last week from a woman who said she purchased...
...Dear Abby' sure is messy," the flight attendant said. The woman who had offered him lunch and a ride was advice columnist Abigail Van Buren. Kristofferson's public service in the military and on the Baxter City Council parallels that...
...preachers, a psychiatrist, your parents, God and self-help books. (You may have even written to more than one advice columnist!) Consider this: Marriages take work on the part of both spouses. You and your wife have nearly two decades invested...
...AND NEIGHBOR DEAR FRIEND: When people write to an advice columnist, they often tell only half the story. Thank you...ABBY: I'm 76, and this is my first letter to an advice columnist. (I started reading advice columns years ago when...