NAMES IN THE NEWS : Ailing Goode May Trim Workdays

Mayor W. Wilson Goode’s 14-hour workdays may be over.

As doctors try to determine what has caused the mayor’s heartbeat periodically to race, sometimes at twice the normal rate, the mayor’s spokeswoman said Goode may start putting in shorter days at City Hall.

“He said to me that it might not be too bad to come in around 9 and stay till, oh, say 6 o’clock,” Karen Warrington said. The mayor typically has left home before 7 a.m. and not returned until 9 p.m. or later, she said, and he often worked seven days a week. The 51-year-old mayor was discharged Saturday from the hospital, where doctors ran a battery of tests.