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...rejuvenation has been an effort for us to catch up with what some of our fashion-oriented consumers were purchasing elsewhere," says Frankfort. "It's meant to be in style today and at the same time tomorrow's classic." As brand renovations go, Coach's has been heroic. The company went public in October, cutting the cord from parent Sara Lee Corp., a cheesecake-and-underwear conglomerate. The stock price has more than doubled. It fairly trumpeted its third-quarter results, tooting that compared with last year, profits were up 156%, to $7.8 million on sales of $131 million. From...
...just what has the FAA proposed to make LaGuardia livable again? Its first suggestion is a classic old-style agency tactic: Kick the final decision down the field by extending the current 'lottery' system of flights. The lottery was imposed last winter after Congress foolishly opened the floodgates by changing legislation to allow pretty much anyone to fly into the most congested airspace in the world. "We told members of Congress that the airlines would throw every airplane they had at LaGuardia and the flying world would come to a stop if they passed that bill. But they...
DIED. IMOGENE COCA, 92, wide-eyed, winsome comedian and Sid Caesar's co-star in the 1950s television classic Your Show of Shows; in Westport, Conn. Petite in stature but possessed of outsize energy, Coca won an Emmy in 1952 for her subtly satirical performance on the show, which aired live for 90 minutes on Saturday nights and during which Coca and Caesar, without the aid of cue cards, acted out skits lampooning marriage, everyday life and popular culture...
...Line?; in San Francisco. Francis appeared in movies, on Broadway (the 1942 comedy The Doughgirls) and as TV co-host of the 1950s morning show Home. But she found her highest calling guessing other people's occupations for 25 years as a panelist on one of television's classic game shows...
Among these was the Ivy League Classic victory on Apr. 1. Last year, Harvard had fallen to Princeton in a heartbreaking final match. This year, Princeton opted not to attend the tournament and the Crimson took advantage, bringing home its first title in eight years...