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I VOL. XCIX PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1993 NO. 144 8 PAGES Copyright 1993 Palm Beach Daily News if LI Brinker comes out of coma By SHANNON DONNELLY Daily News Society Editor Norman Brinker, the founder of the Chili's restaurant chain who was injured in a polo match last month, has regained consciousness, a St. Mary's Hospital spokesman said Thursday. a.

r) St. Mary Hospital spokesman David Feng said Brinker was transferred out of the intensive care unit and will remain at St. Mary's, where his condition is listed as stable and improving. "Both physicians and family members are optimistic that Mr. Brinker's awareness of his surroundings should continue to improve," Brinker the hospital said in a written statement.

Brinker, 61, a former Olympic equestrian, was practicing Jan. 21 for an all-star charity polo match when the pony he was riding collided with another, sending both Brinker and his mount to the ground. The pony fell atop Brinker, causing serious injuries to his head and neck. The sportsman's prognosis is "excellent for a good recovery," said Dr. Phillip Williams, Brinker's Dallas-based neurosurgeon.

Williams also said he expects Brinker to show a gradual improvement. Please see BRINKER, Page 4 I 1 s- ft jiv i 1 Photo By MICHAEL PRICE Czech-born skin care expert Georgette Klinger's constant companion is her poodle Pushka. Klinger gives clients personal service Kravis to close for 7 weeks in summer By JAN SJOSTROM Dally News Arts Editor The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts will close for seven weeks this summer to complete construction left undone in the rush to get the building completed by last fall. In addition, the opening of the Cohen Pavilion, a combination banquet hall and restaurant, has been pushed back to fall because of construction delays.

The pavilion was supposed to open this month. The performing arts center in West Palm Beach will hold no performances from July 11 to Sept. 2. Walk-up box office operations will be suspended, but orders will still be taken by phone and mail. The Kravis plans to announce its two-part summer season, which will run from May to July 11 and from Sept.

2 to early October, by early March. The season will include popular music, jazz and country, said Frank Keel, director of communications and promotions. The Kravis also is kicking off a fund-raising Please see KRAVIS, Page 4 always offer succor and support. Klinger's relationships with many of her clients span decades, and in many cases, include associations with their children, grandchildren and husbands. Testimonials are common.

New Yorker and part-time Palm Beacher Irma Anapol, a client who has been going to Klinger for more than 30 years, said, "I was so unhappy when I first started coming. My skin was so bad, I had cystic acne. I wanted to hide until I came Please see KLINGER, Page 6 tively involved in all aspects of her business. She has her own laboratories, which formulate products made to her specifications, and she works closely with the chemists who develop them. But what Klinger considers most important in business is personalized service.

"We are not good judges of ourselves and need people who care to advise us," Klinger says. It is apparent from the way she treats her clientsthat Klinger cares. She will not sugar coat her assessments that is not her style but will for the individual and performed by trained technicians in the private settings of her salons. Every year, Klinger visits each of the eight salons she founded to meet with her clients. Klinger, a stickler for perfection, wants to be sure her products are used properly and that maximum benefits are derived.

For the next two weeks, she will conduct personalized skin analyses and prescribe treatments at her salon in The Esplanade. Even after working for more than half a century in a field she helped pioneer, Klinger remains ac By MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN Daily News Fashion Editor "There are no miracles only good skin care," said Czech-born expert Georgette Klinger, who has been in the skin care business for more than 50 years. Scientific skin care is a concept Klinger introduced to America when beauty salons catered primarily to hairdressing and little, if any, attention was paid to caring for the skin. Over the years, she has built her business around offering a program of personal services that are created SunFest adds musicians Bogart and Indigo Girls to lineup By JAN SJOSTROM Daily News Arts Editor i I 1 I I iiu nl J4 Ml liijiiwiii. iW 11 1 11 A' 4 UM 1 Sweetheart Deal promotion to Tuesday.

Sweetheart Deal tickets are priced at $14 for a four-day pass and $7 for a one-day pass and are on sale at First Union National Banks. The deal was supposed to end Sunday but was extended because the banks will be closed Sunday and Monday for President's Day. Advance tickets will go on sale again from March 18 to April 27 at $18 for a four-day pass and $8 for one day. Advance tickets and souvenir lapel pins will be sold at 150 outlets in Palm Beach County and through TicketMaster. The pins cost $1 and grant free admission April 28.

Tickets at the gate will be $22 for four days and $10 for one day. Children age 12 and younger who are accompanied by an adult get in free. For information, call 3 SunFest has added boogie-woogie pianist, saxophonist and singer Deanna Bogart and the folk group The Indigo Girls to the festival's musical lineup. Bogart will play at about 9:30 p.m., right after the fireworks, April 30. The Grammy Award-winning Indigo Girls will perform at 2 p.m.

May 2. The musicians join already announced SunFest acts The Robert Cray Band, Richard Elliot, Bela Fleck the Flecktones, Branford Marsalis, Diane Schuur and Spyro Gyra. The festival plans to unveil 10 to 15 more acts by mid-March. SunFest will be held April 28 to May 2 along Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach. SunFest has extended its discount If The Indigo Girls, Emily Saliers (left) and Amy Ray, will perform May 2.

Deanna Bogart will perform April 30. Haseltine grateful for PB generosity Zoo enlists Nicklaus as 'bear affair' host Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He'll put on his Tony Lamas and a string tie for the hoedown, to be held this evening at The Ritz-Carlton. Emily and Dominic Di-Maggio are chairmen. "Dana-Farber is the premier example of how outstanding scientific research can be done in the context of outstanding medicine," Haseltine said.

"Those people who believe that it's difficult to get the Ph.Ds we call them PHUDS and MDs, or the MUDS, to work together ought to come to Dana-Farber. That's why I did. I see scientific research move from the bench to the bedside. That's why I'm there." Haseltine, a retrovirologist, By SHANNON DONNELLY Daily News Society Editor Doctors and scientists don't have to hate each other. William Haseltine will tell you that.

Haseltine, Ph.D., is chief of the Division of Human Retroviro-logy at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He's also professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, professor of cancer biology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and director of the Basic Science Center at the Harvard AIDS Institute. Busy man, he. But he's found the time to be vice chairman of the committee for the Palm Beach Hoedown to benefit the Jack Nicklaus has been with D-FCI since 1976. In 1982, he began to work on AIDS, joining an international effort coordinated by the National Cancer Institute to discover the cause of the disease.

Since 1984, he has studied the AIDS virus at D-FCI, and in 1989 was appointed chief of its new Division of Retrovirology. His laboratory is involved in full-time research of tne HTLV-1 HTLV-2, HIV-1 and HIV-2 human retroviruses. The DFCI, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, is one of 28 federally designated cancer centers. It has earned international Please see HASELTINE, Page 4 5 their beloved bears and maybe win one of the cash prizes being offered. For children, judging will take place in the Biggest Teddy Bear, Smallest, and Bear-Owner look-alike categories.

Adults can enter in either the Most Ancient, Best Dressed or Most Talented Teddy Bear categories. In addition to cash prizes for adults and savings bonds for children, several local merchants have donated prizes, zoo spokeswoman Kim Potter said. "It's going to be a very, very fun day for families," Potter said. By LARRY HOBBS Daily News Staff Writer The Golden Bear himself, golfing legend Jack Nicklaus, will participate in the first Teddy Bear Affair, set for Saturday and Sunday at Dreher Park Zoo. The North Palm Beach resident will be joined by his wife, Barbara, to welcome the teddy bears and their owners from 2 to 3 p.m.

Saturday. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Bear lovers of all ages are invited to register to show off "We don't usually do two-day events, but this warrants it.

It's going to be enough fun for two days." Nicklaus will present the prizes to Saturday's winners, Pot-Please see NICKLAUS, Page 3.