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...school anyway. So rather than have me get a prison record, he'd just say, 'Well, go ahead and do it if you're going to do it.' I went on tour in the South at 16 with bands like Frankie Ford and Jimmy Clanton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Consultations with the Doctor | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...Chairman James Miller, a Reagan appointee known for his pro-business views, was eager to drop the suit. Michael Pertschuk, a zealous consumer advocate who was commission chairman under President Carter, was just as adamant to keep it going. In December the two other commissioners, Patricia Bailey and David Clanton, both moderate Republicans, voted with Pertschuk to hear more arguments. By last week, however, Bailey and Clanton had switched sides. Clanton concluded that no cereal monopoly exists. Bailey decided that, monopoly or no, the proposed punishment was inappropriate. "To carve new cereal companies from the hides of existing ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snap, Crackle, Flop! | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...story, drawn from a real event in pre-World War I Britain, involves Ronnie (David Haller), a naval cadet who has been expelled for supposedly stealing a five-shilling money order. Convinced that his son is innocent, Arthur Winslow (Ralph Clanton) launches a David-vs.-Goliath struggle against the powers that be. Thanks to a top barrister (Remak Ramsay) whose icy hauteur masks a passion for justice, the boy's name is cleared, but the economic and emotional costs are high, especially for Winslow's daughter Catherine, who loses her fiancé. The strikingly attractive Giulia Pagano makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Quartet | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...such as permitting lawyers to advertise despite the American Bar Association's restrictions and forbidding companies like Levi Strauss or Florsheim from setting minimum retail prices on their products, have benefited consumers. But the agency's excesses endanger its important consumer protection work. Says Republican David A. Clanton, one of the five FTC commissioners: "The trouble with the pendulum swinging the other way is that you knock out all the good stuff as well as chastising us where we need to be chastised." But when the final votes are taken on the various committee measures, Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Open Season on the FTC | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...compensation, the movie can boast some accurate location work around New York and some fine, sinewy performances by Rony Clanton as Sonny, Joyce Walker as his girl friend who turns to the needle, and most especially by a group of black nonprofessionals, a lot of them recruited from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Once in a while, the movie quiets its tone of social soap opera and pulls together a strong sequence: a gang fight, staged with the right kind of rushed clumsiness and dulled, all-directions violence, and a lacerating funeral sequence with a lightning-rod eulogy by a preacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Black Man's Burden | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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