University Of Louisville

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Mona Cohn doesn't have time for a mid-life crisis -- she's too busy running for homecoming queen at the University of Louisville.At 48, this energetic woman with the perfect 4.0 grade point average set her sights on the crown more than a year ago. And why not? she says. So what if the other candidates are younger than her son Jeffrey, a 28-year-old businessman from Atlanta?"I want people to know life doesn't end at 40," says Ms. Cohn, a former Greyhound bus station manager and dress store owner now in her third year at the university.

Most of John Unitas' life has been consumed with statistics. Such impressive attainments as the first quarterback to account for more than 40,000 yards and the incomparable achievement of completing touchdown passes in 47 straight games. But the intangibles were more important, how he was beyond intimidation and refused to yield when confronted with physical pain.There was, furthermore, no defense he couldn't beat. A mind reader? No. Just an analytical leader with a sense of recognition, a perception of how to attack a coverage and introduce the element of surprise.

Dr. Kenneth SnawderDr. Kenneth D. Snawder, who wrote a handbook that is widelyused in teaching pediatric dentistry, died Sunday of cancer at a hospital in Louisville, Ky.Services for Dr. Snawder, who was 57 and lived in Greenville, Ind., near Louisville, were being held today at the Eckhardt Funeral Chapel, 11605 Reisterstown Road in Owings Mills.The pediatric dentist first came to the Baltimore area when he served in the Army and was stationed at Fort Holabird from 1957 to 1959. He returned here from 1962 to 1963, working as a chemist for Alcolac Inc. and the Seven-Up Bottling Co.Dr.

George McWhorter's mother taught him to read at age 5 by enticing him with the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.For Kevin Hancer, Mr. Burroughs was "the author that nobody in school was going to tell me about." Reading the Tarzan epics -- there are 24 novels -- was an act of rebellion for the teen-age Hancer.Now adults, Mr. McWhorter and Mr. Hancer continue to be held in the primordial grip of the ageless apeman, who is still swinging as he celebrates his 80th birthday this year.Mr. Hancer runs the Jungle Club, a loosely organized club of fans and collectors, out of his home in Edina, Minn.

Ralph Harper, an adjunct professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University and retired rector of St. James Church in Monkton, has won the $150,000 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his 1991 book, "On Presence: Variations and Reflections."The award is given jointly by the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary to writers and artists who "are able to present ideas in such a way so to inspire the rest of us to the best of our spiritual capabilities," according to David Hester, acting director for the Grawemeyer Award.

Louisville, Kentucky -- Here's a community, in the midst of a biting national recession, that thinks it's fixed some of its bad old habits and found a way to keep its head above water -- maybe even grow some.Reversing a dramatic loss in manufacturing jobs in the early '80s, the Louisville market area in the last five years has been gaining an average of 10,000 jobs a year. Residents' real earnings have grown 9 percent in the last three years.In the mid-'70s there was public uproar over school busing; in the early '80s, Louisville got dubbed ''Strike City'' for its contentious labor relations.