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Wong Chong Chin Clayton, Australia...
Collecting corporate ties has even become a new executive-suite game. "They are like baseball cards for big kids," says William Clayton, a senior vice president of E.F. Hutton. Clayton had the 128 ties he owns hung like a tapestry on a wall in his office. The more subtle the tie and limited its distribution, the more prized it becomes. One of the most highly sought-after ties is the one by Pepsi-Cola with the company logo in Cyrillic script, distributed to a select group of Soviet officials as a memento of the company's trade knot with...
...spent a good portion of 1979 holed up in a Paris loft, collaborating with artist Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams) on a book of portraits of American heroes, to which Waits has contributed the text. "You know, people like Marlene Dietrich, Mohammad Ali, Meyer Lansky, Pearl Bailey, Jimmy Durante, Adam Clayton Powell...
...rare small town that is not afflicted by poverty; 38% of the black inhabitants of small towns live below the poverty line. Then, too, it is only an unusual small town that does not have a dilapidated neighborhood to which the citified word slum might be applied. Says Anthropologist Clayton Denman of Central Washington University, founder and head of the Small Towns Institute at Ellensburg, Wash.: "Small towns are facing problems that are much the same as the cities' problems, except for scale...
DIED. Allen Clayton Hoskins, 59, black child actor who, as the pigtailed, resourceful Farina, made 105 "Our Gang" comedies in nine years, more than anyone else in the long-running (1922-44) series; of cancer; in Oakland, Calif...