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After former Postmaster General Albert V. Casey '43 dedicated the new 56-cent John Harvard stamp yesterday, he had some goodies, in the form of souvenir albums, to distribute to distinguished guests. According to tradition, the first such prize goes to the President of the United States. "Mr. Reagan's shall be delivered to the White House," Casey quipped...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Of Postage Stamps, Old Porters And the Wrong Anniversary | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...many companies can reap handsome profits by giving away everything they produce. But in the newspaper business, an enterprising group of publishers is doing just that. By relying solely on advertising revenues, their papers prosper without charging readers a cent. From the suburban Boston Tab (circ. 150,000) to Berkeley's East Bay Express (circ. 45,000), free newspapers, most of them weeklies, are finding lucrative editorial niches and providing a sprightly alternative to established dailies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Money Down | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

Porter and Fenster taught their classes in the second semester of the first year, so Spence--despite her 100 per cent cut record--was somehow able to make it through the fall semester. The Business School's registrar office could find no transcript for Spence...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Mystery Business School Student Revealed | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

Wolper insists that "not one cent" of the statue's restoration funds is paying for Liberty Weekend. "All of the costs are being covered by the sale of television rights and tickets," he says. But many of the tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies are unsold. Of the total of 58,000 tickets, 9,000 remain, most of them in the $100 and $200 category. ABC, however, is not worried; the network bought the broadcast rights for $10 million, and has already sold $30 million worth of commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Party of the Century | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...However the show fares, Sondheim is once again rejuvenating a too often tired and mindless format. And the best news for the future of the musical is that Sondheim can rightly claim that, in the title phrase of a bawdy anthem he wrote for the movie The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, "I Never Do Anything Twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than Song and Dance with Each Show, Sondheim Redefines the Musical | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

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