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...Tuesday trial, a Middlesex County Third District Judge also fined the student. Matthew J. Chamberlain of 25 Avon St. in Cambridge $40 to the cover the cost of the lights broken during his July 8 early morning spree...
...doubt as to who would be the obvious choice to play the main character. In Murder on Location, a hard-boiled tale of Hollywood low jinks, the sleuthing hero is an actor, just like George, a private pilot, just like George, and is named-you guessed it-George Kennedy. Avon books has run off 185,000 paperback copies and the film rights have already been snapped up. As for the plot, well, the book jacket copy says it all: "Lights! Camera! Murder! The picture had box-office bucks written all over it. Top talent, a big budget and a great...
...style to this dowager of a "problem play." He has outfitted her in the decorous billows and sashes of Edwardian England, taught her to sing and dance, sent her on a grand tour of Belle Epoque France and war-weary Italy. Now, fresh from triumphs in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, this radiant creature has come to charm Broadway for 16 weeks. Three cheers and a kowtow are in order...
...nothing seems to have stopped the company's growth. In addition to its direct-selling business, second in size only to Avon's in the U.S., Amway owns the Mutual Broadcasting System, the largest radio network in the U.S. (950 affiliates), two 50,000-watt radio stations in Chicago and New York, the Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids and a resort in the British Virgin Islands...
...industry's hottest segment at the moment is skin-care products, with Dallas-based Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc. the growth leader: 1981 sales were $235 million, a 41% rise over 1980. Though the firm uses a direct-sales approach similar to Avon's, Company Founder Mary Kay Ash has concentrated almost entirely for the past 19 years on skin-care products, as opposed to cosmetics-style makeup. Consequently, the firm now finds itself in a timely and profitable mesh with the American healthand-fitness craze. The company has also built a large and loyal female sales force...