Hank

For Henry Dashiell "Hank" Burroughs Jr., a veteran White House Associated Press photographer, accompanying President John F. Kennedy to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, was going to be another routine assignment. The whirlwind Texas trip was to end in Hyannis Port, Mass., where Kennedy would spend Thanksgiving. The presidential party landed at Dallas Airport at 12:37 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on a warm, sun-splashed afternoon. As Kennedy departed Air Force One, he walked across the airport tarmac to well-wishers behind a chain link fence.

Who's hot Woody Williams of the Cardi nals is 3-0 against the Brewers with an ERA of 0.44 in three starts covering 20 2/3 innings. Who's not The Reds, the first pro baseball team, lost their 90th game for only the 14th time in history. Line of the day Ronnie Belliard, Rockies 2B AB R H RBI HR 5 3 4 8 2 He said it "He deserves it more than I do. He's been my idol since I was 5 years old." Gary Sheffield, Braves right fielder, after his 128th RBI broke Hank Aaron's 1966 Atlanta record On deck Mike Mussina of the Yankees tries for his 200th career victory tonight, facing the White Sox.

LOS ANGELES -- Eight months ago, when Loyola Marymount center Hank Gathers collapsed on the floor of Gersten Pavilion during a game and died shortly thereafter, it all seemed like a surreal dream.So did the next three whirlwind weeks, as the Loyola team focused its pain and sorrow and anger into a series of improbable NCAA tournament victories dedicated to their fallen leader.Now, with a new season beginning, a banner hanging over the Pavilion court proclaiming, "Hank's House -- Here the Lion's Spirit Dwells," is the only visible reference to Gathers or the March 4 tragedy.

AUSTIN, TEXAS // Talk about bad timing. King of the Hill opened its 10th season two nights ago, on Emmy Sunday, a night when most networks air reruns rather than compete with the pre-awards shows or the glamorous back-patting extravaganza itself. You can almost imagine the pain etched into Hank's face about this disrespectful decision by Fox. Mike Judge, who created King of the Hill and voices Hank and the unintelligible Boomhauer, said last week that he was unaware the debut would go up against the Emmys.

How nice if the last film of the late Tony Richardson contained at least an echo of the movies that made him legendary. He was, after all, responsible for no less than five great ones: "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner," "Look Back in Anger," "The Entertainer," "The Loved One" and, of course, the unforgettable "Tom Jones."But "Blue Sky" is nowhere near that level of accomplishment. It's just OK. Respectable, certainly, and well-acted, well-crafted, well-thought-out, a grown-up movie to the nines.

The former president of Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point plant has been named as the successor to the company's chairman and chief executive officer, Curtis H. "Hank" Barnette, the company said yesterday. Barnette previously announced he would retire in April 2000.Duane R. Dunham, 57, has been viewed as Barnette's heir apparent since July, when he was promoted from executive vice president to president and chief operating officer. He will assume his new duties April 25."It's no surprise to anyone following the company," said Waldo T. Best, an analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

Once he's done serving as a spring training coach, Andy Etchebarren will work as the Orioles' minor league roving catching instructor before beginning his second year as manager at short-season Single-A Aberdeen. The IronBirds are the fifth Orioles affiliate he's managed. The starting catcher on the 1966 World Series team, Etchebarren also was Davey Johnson's bench coach in 1996 and 1997. What's been the toughest job you've had with the Orioles? -- Managing Triple-A [Rochester]. That's a situation where you call a guy up and then you have two or three guys upset because they have better stats and they thought they should go. And then the guy that comes down, he's upset.

It is probably a law of television physics: If you soar as high as producer David E. Kelley did a few seasons ago with Ally McBeal, The Practice and Chicago Hope all doing well in the ratings at the same time, you are going to have one big crash when you return to Planet Earth. Last fall, Kelley's crash came in the form of a Fox series about three female attorneys in their 20s called The Girls' Club. The trio did more shopping and whining than law, and the series was mercifully one of the first to be canceled.

Everyone's heard of the Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail. But what about the famous Buzzard Trail? And who knew that two important figures of the Gold Rush were Steve the talking mule and Cletus -- who had an opossum living on his head? OK. The Buzzard Trail isn't that famous and Cletus and Steve aren't really important. To tell the truth, none of that is even true. But if it helps elementary school pupils be more enthusiastic about learning history, then fifth-grade teachers Kevin Mulroe and John Krownapple are glad to tell such tall tales.

If there is anything more futile than coveting a man's soul, it is pretending to be that man.I wanted to be the poet Charles "Hank" Bukowski.I tried to be Bukowski.Now Hank is dead, and I've stopped trying.This month, leukemia took Hank away at 73. His family came to America from Germany when he was 3, landing first in Baltimore. They settled in Los Angeles. It was here that Hank suffered his father's stern discipline, without escape, until finding solace in a bottle at age 13. Like Los Angeles, booze would both corrupt and create his writing all his life.