Word: columbus
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Expanding on decisions dating back to 1977, the high court ruled 5 to 3 that a state may not ban nondeceptive advertisements even when the attorney is soliciting clients with very specific legal problems. Columbus Lawyer Philip Zauderer had been reprimanded by the Ohio Supreme Court for placing a series of modest newspaper ads in 1982 that showed a line drawing of the Dalkon Shield IUD. Zauderer's text said the device was alleged to have caused injuries and other health problems for women and suggested that victims could still sue, even though the device had been off the market...
...rancor; it seems to have been obvious even then that Madonna was just passing through. Mark Kamins, deejay at the Danceteria, a funky, four-floor Chelsea disco that caters to purple-haired punks in leather and other exotics, is credited with "discovering" Madonna in 1982, although like America before Columbus, she was there all along. "She had this incredible sense of style," says Kamins. "She had an aura." She also had a four-track demo tape she had made with another boyfriend, a musician named Steve Bray. Kamins played it and got great response from the disco crowd...
...twelve-hour tour of the early years of Christianity, A.D. Indeed, there has hardly been a respite all season from the parade of miniseries. Seven multipart dramas of three nights or more (as well as several two-parters) have been telecast since September; an eighth, CBS's Christopher Columbus, is coming...
Convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre, Lieut. Calley was released from house arrest in Fort Benning, Ga., in 1974 after serving one-third of a ten-year sentence. Calley, 41, settled in nearby Columbus, Ga., where he is a sales manager in his father-in-law's V.V. Vick jewelry store...
...Claremont, Calif., in 1983, some 2,000 families have written to ask about hiring one of its 36 graduates. Desperate couples have even been known to underwrite a trainee's tuition to ensure her services after graduation. The rush, says Judith Bunge, founder of North American Nannies Inc., in Columbus, "is because of the high number of working mothers with children under...