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...Avon Rent-A-Car in Los Angeles offers customers some of the world's classiest autos, including Rolls-Royces, Porsches and BMWs. Naturally, the company also expects its clients to have some class and certainly to be above petty vandalism. But Avon President Stuart Silver reports that more than half of last year's 12,000 rentals came back without the rear license-plate frame. The frames have Avon Rent-a-Car printed on them, and Silver reasons that customers who shell out $350 a day for a Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible "want everybody to think it's their...
...grabbed her tiara and put it on the head of the sobbing first runner-up. Then another hand attempted to pull off her winner's sash. Saengravee was popular with the audience, but hardly with other contestants. Some accused her of having her makeup done outside (rather than using Avon cosmetics like everyone else), wearing false eyelashes and having had her nose fixed. When the melee died down, Saengravee wore her crown and sash and was smiling bravely...
Some of his entries are speculative: Ophelia may have been the Katharine Hamlet who drowned in the Avon river in 1579. But other cases are beyond argument. Harold Skimpole, the "damaged young man . . . who had undergone some unique process of depreciation" in Bleak House, was the poet Leigh Hunt. A boasting letter from Charles Dickens is exhibit A: "The likeness is astonishing. I don't think it could be more like (Hunt) himself." Dickens tempered his Victorian portrait with humor, but George Eliot was made of sterner stuff. Apologizing to a clergyman who had recognized an unflattering likeness in Scenes...
Indicted on nine felony counts ranging from soliciting for prostitution to commiting oral sex was Dana E. Smith of Avon, Conn...
...Avon; 195 pages...