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...roll...brought me up on good ol' rhythmatic"). In the 1940 Sun Valley Serenade she introduced Chattanooga Choo Choo, dancing with the great Nicholas brothers. By then Dottie was a solo act. Much later, Vivian worked as her star sister's hairdresser--but that's another sad show-biz tale...
ELVIS IMPERSONATORS The King is dead; long live the ersatz Kings. After 20 years, the Elvis biz has never been better...
Musing on the differences between the computer biz and the animation biz, Jobs notes, "Look, you work on a technical product, and if you're really lucky, it ships. If you're really, really lucky, it's a hit and lasts a year. If you're in the pantheon of products it lasts a decade, then it rapidly becomes a sediment layer on which the next layer of technology is built. I don't think you'll be able to boot up any computer today in 20 years...
Your chart on the CEOs of Apple Computer Inc. included me and my years at the company, from April 1983 to June 1993 [BIZ WATCH, July 21]. However, there seem to be some details missing. I have this strange memory that after 1985, but before the introduction of the handheld Newton in 1993, Apple had some glorious years with desktop publishing, multimedia Macs, PowerBooks, educational Macs, the marketing campaign of the decade and the No. 1-selling personal computer worldwide. Guess it was just a figment of my imagination. JOHN SCULLEY New York City
...three-quarters of the nation's 9 million companies are no more than a quarter-century old. But let's not ignore the hardy perennials. Longfellow's Wayside Inn, founded in the early 1700s and probably the oldest homegrown business, still welcomes guests in Sudbury, Mass. Below, a durable-biz list...