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...brought there and handed to the clerk behind the counter. There were the two young men, for example, who carted in a $600 color TV and a $300 VCR, plunked them down and accepted Johnny's $175 check for both. And then there was the fellow who parked a brand-new $15,000 Oldsmobile outside and gladly took $500 for it. "The car business is much more profitable than the stereo business," the seller earnestly explained. "How many...
Besides selling reruns Murdoch will be able to offer the independents some brand-new shows produced by 20th Century-Fox's studios. This so-called first-run syndication business is flourishing right now. Among the biggest hits: Entertainment Tonight, Wheel of Fortune and People's Court. The Fox studio still lags behind such rivals as Paramount Television and Tribune Entertainment, an independent TV group that produces the cop opera Dempsey & Makepeace. 20th Century-Fox now makes only four shows for first-run syndication, including $100,000 Pyramid and Dance Fever. At the moment, Murdoch is in no hurry to assume...
...TIME as a copy boy in 1950. Six months later he became the first layout artist in the newly formed color department. Says he of those early days: "Charlie Jackson was a mentor, to me and many others, before the term or the role was fashionable. When I was brand-new, he saw me looking confused, took pity, sat down and taught me how to crop pictures with a proportional slide rule...
...facilities that line the banks of the Charles River are arguably some of the best around. In recent years, the long-awaited completion of a brand-new ice hockey arena, a brand-new indoor swimming pool, a brand-new basketball arena, a brand-new track and tennis center, a brand-new outdoor track, a brand-new outdoor tennis complex and a brand-new all-purpose indoor athletic building have given birth to a brand-new program...
...mornings after a Providence jury acquitted Claus von Bulow, his defense lawyer, Thomas Puccio, arrived at his brand-new office in the Wall Street firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. He was just in time to settle a dispute between his secretary and a decorator over where to put the black leather sofa and chair in relation to his black lacquer desk and bookcase. The firm's partner of two months should be greeting many a new client from behind that desk. For in the wake of his Von Bulow victory last week, commentators across the country are suddenly ranking...