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...entrepreneur: "Leave skid marks at the edge of the cliff." Rush was about to leave some. The year before, 1980, he had failed to fill a 500-seat rock club in Boston for a Christmas show, at $7 a ticket. Now he booked the city's classiest concert house, the 2,600-seat Symphony Hall, for a year-end performance at $15. It was a $20,000 gamble, and it paid off in a sellout. A year later, when he repeated the concert, Bostonians talked of his "traditional" Symphony Hall year-ender. Next season public television filmed the show...
Avon Rent-A-Car in Los Angeles offers customers some of the world's classiest autos, including Rolls-Royces, Porsches and BMWs. Naturally, the company also expects its clients to have some class and certainly to be above petty vandalism. But Avon President Stuart Silver reports that more than half of last year's 12,000 rentals came back without the rear license-plate frame. The frames have Avon Rent-a-Car printed on them, and Silver reasons that customers who shell out $350 a day for a Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible "want everybody to think it's their...
...white clapboards, with never a rusty manure spreader or junked '67 Plymouth sagging in the sideyard. His self-pleasure is bubbly and innocent. A visitor asks whether it is true that he takes 20% from each sale. "Yes!" he says, beaming. He is delighted to be ringmaster of the classiest and priciest midsummer auction in a state where every third cowshed sells antiques. But now, on the auction block, Withington's rhythm slows. "Twenty-two thousand to 23,000, do I have 23?" He has stopped bouncing. A pause, then "Yes, now 24,000, yes, 25?" A longer pause. Here...
Michael Tucci, who played Jerry Golden, the head of the Law Review, calls The Paper Chase the classiest time he spent in the business. Although the location is never directly stated in the series, he says, "When I did it, I always thought of it as Harvard. Harvard's the best. It speaks for itself...
This year's team is one of the classiest groups over to represent any university. And I am extremely proud to be their coach. Frank McLaughlin Coach, Harvard Men's Basketball