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Thursday. Dec. 22, 1988 The Philadelphia Inquirer 9-F Def Leppard, George Michael lead music-award nominations A blessed Christmas gift of life CHUCKY, from I once he died. ceiving at least two nominations were Alabama, Rick Astley, Tracy Chapman, D.J. Jazzy Jeff The Fresh Prince, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Gladys Knight The Pips, Run-DMC, Salt-N-Pepa, George Strait, Al B.

Sure! and Steve Winwood. Dick Clark, who created and produces the American Music Awards, said this year's show would include tributes to Roy Orbison, soul singer Brook Benton and pop singer Andy Gibb. All three died in the last year. Names of nominees for the American Music Awards are compiled from year-end sales charts of the music industry trade publication Cash Box. The winners are selected by a public polling of 20,000 people who receive ballots, which in turn are counted by a national accounting firm.

1 favorite male vocalist in both the pop-rock and soulrhythm-and-blues categories. He received favorite-album nominations in those same categories. Def Leppard was nominated in the pop-rock category for favorite duo or group and favorite album for Hysteria. The group also received the favorite artist and favorite album nominations in the heavy metal category. Nominations for the American Music Awards are made through a popularity poll rather than a vote by industry experts, like the Grammy Awards.

Nomination categories this year include pop-rock, soul-rhythm and blues, country, heavy metal and rap. Among groups and performers re BKVEKLY HILLS. Calif. Heavy, metal group Def Leppard and pop singer George Michael led the nominations today for the 16th annual American Music Awards. The awards show, set for a three-hour broadcast Jan.

30 on ABC-TV, added heavy metal and rap music to categories for this year while eliminating video music awards from the show. Earning three nominations each for the awards were Los Angeles heavy metal bands Guns 'N' Roses and Van Halen. Country-music star Randy Travis also earned three nominations. Michael, whose crossover album, Faith, has generated six hit singles over the last year, was nominated as x. it WEATHER Philadelphia region National forecast for 7 p.m.

today, showing high and low temperatures 11 vr TODAV Mostly sunny and cooler. High: 43 Wind: Light Precipitation: None TONIGHT late rain possible 25 TOMORROW Rain likely 48 SATURDAY Late rain possible 5338 SUNDAY Clearing 5338 MONDAY Fair 4533 In the 1830s in what is now Czechoslovakia, but then was part of Germany, there was a glut of priests. So much of a glut that the man who would later become a saint had a hard time getting ordained. John Neumann had finished his seminary training and was on the verge of being ordained when the bishop in his diocese got sick. Neumann signed up to become a missionary in the United States, and to his delight he was hardly off the boat in 1832 when the bishop of New York told him how badly he was needed and ordained him.

First, he was assigned to the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area, but after several years he found the work and isolation of a diocesan priest not to his taste. On the advice of a missionary priest he'd met years before, he took vows as a member of the Re-demptorists, an order of brothers. During the next 10 years, the Rev. John Neumann worked in Rochester, N.Y., Pittsburgh and finally Baltimore, where he became friends with Archbishop Francis Kenrick, whose territory included the Diocese of Philadelphia. Archbishop Kenrick liked the diminutive Redemptorist priest enough to make Father Neumann his confessor.

And when Pope Pius IX asked Archbishop Kenrick to find a man who could be bishop of Philadelphia, he nominated Father Neumann. The Pope concurred. Bishop John Neumann came to the diocese during particularly hard times. Anti-Catholic groups were burning churches in Philadelphia, there was dissension in the diocese. Bishop Neumann moved forward nevertheless.

He practically invented Catholic school education as we know it today, he made the 40 Hours devotion a regular event on the diocese's church calendar and he wrote the Baltimore Catechism, the book every Catholic child uses to prepare for confirmation. His diocese was enormous, extending north and south from Scranton lo Wilmington, and to Pittsburgh in the west. Yet he traveled it. Not terribly fond of horses, he covered hun 45 38 AU (m. Wm-2 Mb i Jffej jSsjl fcfcego 1 "fr" -jjT.

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High 35 to 40. Light wind. Increasing cloudiness with a chance of snow, sleet or freezing rain tonight and tomorrow, gradually changing to rain tomorrow. Low tonight in the mid-20s. High tomorrow in the upper 30s to low 40s.

Jersey shore: Mostly sunny today. High in the low to mid-40s. Wind northeast 10 to 15 m.p.h. Increasing cloudiness tonight. Low in mid-30s.

Rain likely tomorrow. High 45 to 50. Delaware: Partly sunny today. High in the mid-40s. Wind north 10 to 15 m.p.h.

Becoming cloudy tonight. Low in the lower 30s. Cloudy with afternoon rain likely tomorrow. High 45 to 50. Philadelphia almanac Snow will fall in the northern Plains, the upper Mississippi Valley and the upper Great Lakes.

Showers and thunderstorms will occur in the lower Plains, the middle Mississippi Valley and the remainder of the Great Lakes. Sun and moon ties determined that Benassi's cure was "naturally unexplainable." The second miracle occurred closer to home. On July 8, 1949, Kent Lenahan, 19, of Villanova was standing on the running board of a moving car when it sideswiped a telephone pole. His skull was crushed, his collarbone was broken, a rib punctured one of his lungs. He was admitted to Bryn Mawr Hospital, bleeding from the nose, ears and mouth, and in a coma.

Nothing can be done, the doctors said. His parents prayed at the Shrine of St. John Neumann, and later a neighbor gave them a Neumann relic, a piece of cloth from Bishop Neu Dec. 16 Dee. 23 Dec.

30 Jan. 7-, (D (D Temperatures High yesterday 51 at 1:30 a.m. High for the date 66 in 1895 Full Last Olr. New IstQtr. Marine forecast Manasquan to Cape Henlopen: Fair today, tonight.

Wind variable 10 to 20 knots. Visibility good. Waves 2 to 4 feet. Delaware Bay: Fair today, tonight. Wind northeast 10 to 15 knots today, east at same speed tonight.

Visibility good. Waves 1 to 3 feet today, 2 to 4 tonight. Cape Henlopen to Virginia Beach: Fair today, tonight. Wind northeast 10 to 20 knots today, southeast 10 to 15 tonight. Visibility good.

Waves 4 to 6 feet today, 1 to 2 tonight. Tides Low yesterday 44 at 8:45 p.m. Low for the date 1 in 1942 Normal highlow 4127 Sun rises 7:19 a.m sets 4:40 p.m. Moon rises today 3:54 p.m. Moon sets tomorrow Regional cities Temperature ranges and precipitation for the 24 hours that ended at 7 p.m.

yesterday. Barometer 6 a.m 30.12 steady Noon 30. 1 3 falling 6 p.m 30. 18 steady Midnight 30.32 rising High Low Precip. .51 40 0.10 .51 44 0,06 47 43 .47 36 0.Q9 .59 52 0.07 52 38 Trace .50 46 0.18 it." When she heard this, Nancy turned her face away, and there on the wall, stuck with masking tape and crooked, as though it had been placed there by a child, was a picture of St.

John Neumann. No one knew where the picture had come from. On Monday, the doctor told the McGiverns Chucky had pneumonia. On Tuesday morning, there was no change in his condition, but when Nancy arrived at 6 a.m., she noticed that the relic of St. John Neumann her cousin had entrusted to her was gone.

The room was searched, the dirty laundry in the basement was searched. Nothing. Later that day, a nurse came to the McGiverns. "We had a little problem We think you should know about it. Two doctors were working on Chucky and one looked up and saw a little boy in the doorway.

The doctor asked what he was doing there and the boy said: 'I came to visit The doctors couldn't figure out how the kid made it to the isolation ward without being checked. They called security. The hospital was searched. The kid was nowhere to be found. The nurse described the kid.

He was 11 or 12, wore a beat-up plaid jacket, had shaggy brown hair and wore black-rimmed glasses. It was the same kid Chuck had seen in the waiting room. An hour later, the Rev. Robert Ron-case of St, Martin's Church arrived at the hospital. Nancy was taking a shower and didn't know he'd come.

Father Roncase administered the last rites of the church to Chucky McGivern, and left. It was only a matter of time for little Chucky 12:47 p.m. 8:06 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 1:59 p.m.

7:13 p.m. 1:04 p.m. 6:47 p.m. mann's cassock. Shortly after they touched their son with the relic, Lenahan began his recovery.

Less than five weeks after the accident, he walked, unaided, from the hospital. There are others. In 1963, Bishop Neumann's remains were exhumed and examined, then they were dressed in priestly robes and placed behind glass in the lower Sanctuary of St. Peter's. That year he was beatified made blessed.

The second-to-last step. In 1977, he was made a saint. dreds of miles on foot every month, tending to his people. In short, Bishop Neumann was a tireless worker. But you would not think him an extraordinary man certainly not a man who, in his own lifetime, could be considered a saint.

Philadelphia (Chestnut Street) High tide 12:22 a.m Low tide 7:20 a.m Delaware Breakwater High tide 7:37 a.m Low tide 12:53 a.m Cape May (Municipal Pier) High tide 6:47 a.m Low tide 12:09 a.m Atlantic City (Steel Pier) High tide 6:21 a.m Low tide 12:53 p.m. Beach Haven (Little Egg Harbor) High tide 8:32 a.m Low tide 2:27 a.m Barnegat Inlet High tide 6:25 a.m Precipitation Tuesday None Dec. 1 through Tuesday 0.04 inches Year through Tuesday 37.45 inches Normal through Tuesday 40.21 inches Deficit 2.76 inches Degree days for haating Tuesday 22 Dec. 1 through Tuesday 624 Season through Tuesday 1 580 Last season to date 1382 A degree day for heating is an index of energy consumption for heating. It indicates the number of degrees the mean temperature fails below 65 degrees.

Cities abroad Temperature ranges and conditions Tuesday 8:58 p.m. 3:22 p.m. Beijing 6:51 p.m. Low tide 12:05 a.m 1:00 p.m. National Weather Service radio forecasts: Yesterday in Philadelphia 162.475 VHF-FM.

P.M. Tamp.Hum. Cairo A.M. Tamp.Hum. 1 5038 2 5041 3 5043 4 5046 5 4858 6 4857 7 4856 8 4856 9 4774 10 4774 11 4786 noon 4793 .1 4796 2 4796 3 4696 4 4696 5 4596 6 4597 7 45100 8 45100 '9 4496 10 4482 4 11 4170 midnight 3970 High Low Weather 48 41 Rain 55 39 Rain 9 1 72 Clear 37 21 Cloudy 59 41 Clear 39 32 Cloudy 41 32 Ram 66 32 Clear 48 41 Ram 78 55 Clear .61 46 Cloudy 37 30 Cloudy 52 48 Cloudy 43 30 Cloudy 41 32 Cloudy 73 63 Clear 54 36 Cloudy 77 59 Clear 54 43 Cloudy 57 32 Clear 86 70 Clear 46 18 Cloudy 28 18 Cloudy 19 18 Clear 4 1 30 Cloudy 99 73 Ram 55 27 Clear 36 25 Cloudy 88 75 Rain 36 30 Cloudy 74 70 Cloudy 54 46 Clear 54 39 Cloudy 43 37 Rain 37 27 Cloudy London McGivern.

Or was it? Nancy was drying her hair after her shower when a nurse, excited, appeared before her. "Mrs. McGivern, come down and see your son. He just moved." As she and her husband waited by the bedside, Chucky's fingers twitched. Then his hand reached up and touched the bolt in his head.

By 8 that night, Tuesday, Chucky was nodding yes and no to their questions; his white body had color. At 11:30 p.m., Chuck could hold back no longer. He asked his son, "Was there a little boy in here to see you?" "Yes," Chucky answered. By Wednesday at 4 p.m., Chucky McGivern, the boy who had been on his deathbead for four days, was up and around. The next Saturday a week to the day he was admitted to the hospital he was released.

Today, Chucky is an A student at St. Martin's School. Not everybody believes in miracles, and those people are going to say Chucky just beat the odds. His Oslo Paris Air quality The worst pollutant in the region yesterday was TSP produced mainly by industrial combustion and traffic. The first column in the table shows yesterday's Pollution Standard Index, the second column shows yesterday's highest pollutant, and the third column shows today's forecast.

U.S. cities Temperature ranges for the 24 hours that ended at 7 p.m. yesterday and today's forecast. Yesterday's Today's High Low Weather Albany, N.Y 49 39 Sunny Anchorage. Alaska 21 13 Pt.

Cldy. Atlanta 66 46 Pt. Cldy. Baltimore 54 50 Pt. Cldy.

Bismarck, N.D 33 8 Snow' Boston 58 42 Sunny Buffalo 38 33 Pt. Cldy. Charleston, S.C. 73 50 Pt. Cldy.

Chicago 37 30 Rain Cincinnati 41 35 Pt. Cldy. Cleveland 38 34 Pt. Cldy. Dallas 69 36 Pt.

Cldy. Denver 47 20 Pt. Cldy. Detroit 36 33 Cloudy Honolulu 84 73 Sunny Houston 73 62 Cloudy 40 30 Rain Jacksonville, Fla 80 48 Pt. Cldy.

Kansas City, Mo 43 24 Showers Las Vegas 56 43 Windy Los Angeles 63 52 Ram Memphis, Tenn 58 52 T'storms Miami 76 71 Pt. Cldy. Milwaukee 36 26 Ram Minneapolis 34 13 Rain New Orleans 77 58 Cloudy New York 51 46 Sunny Oklahoma City 61 32 Pt. Cldy. Phoenix 61 45 Fair Portland, Maine 56 40 Sunny St.

Louis 46 29 Showers San Francisco 54 42 Rain Seattle 46 36 Rain Tampa. Fla 81 55 Pt. Cldy. Washington 53 48 Pt. Cldy.

CO SP SP SP S02 S02 S02 Bristol 55 Burlington 60 Camden 64 Chester 38 Norristown 52 Philadelphia 62 Trenton 35 Wilmington 51 Pan-American points Temperature ranges and conditions Tuesday SP GM If Chucky would not survive Reye's syndrome, his parents wanted to be with him when he died. They took up residence at Children's Hospital, which, for those who believe in coincidences, is located on 34th Street. From their room on the other side of the hospital, they could look out the window and see the intensive-care unit he was in. Because of his chicken pox, he also was in isolation. Doctors and nurses were almost always with him.

Somebody in the family checked on him every IS minutes. In the between times, all they could do was sit in the waiting room and pretend to read old magazines and stare at meaningless images on a TV screen. One night when Nancy and Chuck and Nancy's uncle sat watching television, a kid came into the room. He looked poor, off the streets. He was perhaps 11 or 12, wore a shabby plaid jacket, had rumpled hair and wore black-rimmed glasses.

The boy walked into the waiting room, looked at Chuck and walked out. Chuck wondered what this kid was doing in this part of the hospital this time of night, but he said nothing. Meanwhile, Nancy had gone into Chucky's room and found that the medal of St John Neumann had been turned face down. She unhooked the safety pin and turned it face up again. She left the room.

When she returned, the medal was face down again. She unpinned it and turned it face up. The third time it happened, she was certain the stress was getting to her. She mentioned it to her husband. Together they went into the room and found the medal turned face down.

It didn't make sense. Whoever was doing it had to unhook the safety pin, take one medal off, flip the St. John Neumann medal over, rethread the other medal and attach the pin to the pillow again. The McGiverns asked nurses and family. All denied they had touched the pin.

Still, when either parent left and returned, the medal was face down. That was only the beginning. On Sunday night Nancy was standing alone in the room when two nurses came in. Not seeing her there, one said to the other, "He's not going to make High Low Weather Acapulco 89 71 Fair Barbados 86 75 Cleaf Bermuda 68 64 Pt. Cldy.

Guadeloupe 84 73 Fair Kingston 89 69 Fair Mexico City 71 41 Fa MontegoBay 83 72 Fair Nassau 78 69 Fair San Juan 84 71 Pt. Cldy. Trinidad 86 68 Fair CODE: good. 0-50; moderate, 51-100; U. unhealthful.

101-200; very unhealthful. 201-300; H. hazardous, 301-500: CO, carbon monoxide: NO, nitrogen dioxide: SP, suspended particles: 02, ozone; SO, sulfur dioxide. At a Pollution Standard Index rating of 100, the general population begins to experience irritation and other unhealthful effects. Source: The Delaware Valley Citizens Council for Clean Air, (215) 545-1832.

On Jan. 1860, Bishop Neumann was walking along Vine Street on his way to the post office to mail a chalice to a poor priest when he suffered a stroke. In three minutes he was dead. He was 48 years old. He had left word that, when he died, he was to be buried with his Redemptorist brothers.

Since St. Peter's was the only Redemptorist church in the city, he was buried in a crypt under the altar. Almost immediately, devoted Catholics began coming to the church and asking Bishop Neumann for special favors. Word was that some of those favors miracles were being granted. Between 1891 and 1900, thousands of Philadelphians died in typhoid and cholera epidemics.

But not one parishioner of St. Peter's succumbed, and many believe their safety was seen to by Bishop Neumann. Evidence grew, and in 1921 Pope Benedict XV declared Bishop Neumann's life to be "heroic," the first of many steps in the slow process to sainthood. Miracles must be documented before an individual can become a saint, and the first of these occurred in 1923 in Sassuolo, Italy. Eva Ben-assi, 11, had acute peritonitis and was beyond medical help.

Doctors said she could not survive the night. She was given the last rites. While praying over Benassi, a nun touched the girl's abdomen with a picture of Bishop Neumann. That night the peritonitis disappeared. Close examination of the case by church authori- COMICS BRENOA STARR 11 11 "jy BRFMPA.

OP WITH A' I DeSPF.KATELV NEEDS! Oaal. parents won argue with that beating such odds is a miracle in itself. But there's a postscript to this story. While he was comatose, Chucky had a vivid dream. He was in a hospital bed surrounded by his family, many Asian children who brought him gifts, and an older boy who, in the dream, was his best friend.

A boy of about 12 who wore black-rimmed glasses. That's not the end, however. A week after his release from the hospital, a week before Christmas 1982, Chucky and his parents drove down to the Shrine of St. John Neumann to say what would become the first of many prayers of thanks. They were offered a tour of the monastery.

Hanging on the wall in one of the rooms was a painting of a child with shaggy dark brown hair. Chucky looked up, startled. "That was my best friend in my dream," he said. The picture was John Neumann at 12. IPEAi LET ME EXPLAIM IT, THEM SCO i v-v naw mm i i SO TELL PATCH I MEEP HIM BACK HERE.

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