"We would never put them in harm's way," said Connie Malko, a senior publicist for the Weather Channel.

Miss Battaglia, 26 years old, is a senior publicist at St. Martin's Press in New York.

She is a senior publicist at Little, Brown & Company, the publishing house in New York.

Mrs. Frank, 27, is a senior publicist in New York for CNN, the cable television network.

Mrs. Kaufman is a senior publicist at Paramount Pictures in New York.

She is a senior associate publicist in New York with Citigate Sard Verbinnen, a financial public relations firm.

He met the actress Joan Crawford during his stint as senior publicist at PepsiCo, where she was a board member at the time.

"And if a senior publicist gets in anytime soon,please have her call me."

Much of her career was with Simon & Schuster, where she began in 1974 as a senior publicist and rose to be associate publisher.

We hope that's the end of it, says Lisa Sherman-Cohen, a senior publicist at C.T.W.