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...viewers in California, Texas and Arizona, he is Fred Rated, the wild-and-crazy huckster who has appeared in some 800 commercials for the Federated Group, a Los Angeles-based electronics chain. In Stevens' wacky TV career, he has impersonated The Honeymooners' Ralph Kramden and Miami Vice's Sonny Crockett, played a man who gets attacked by rabid frogs and even starred as a Santa Claus who turns into a werewolf. His public appearances at Federated stores attract hundreds of autograph seekers. Most important, since his TV debut in 1982, Federated's sales have surged 80%, and the 16-year...
News Editor for This Issue: John N. Rosenthal Night Editors: Joseph F Kahn '87 Jennifer L. Mnookin Matthew A. Saal '87 James E. Schwartz '87 Thomas J. Winslow '87 Editorial Editor: John N. Ross '87 Features Editor: Victoria G.T Bassetti: Photo Editors: Courtney Crockett '88 Sports Editor: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Business Editor: John P. Siracuse...
...street addresses, 67 art galleries, 40 jewelry stores) and won in a walk. And there have been near misses: in the past year, we have come close to seeing Harry Belafonte run for the Senate in New York, and Charlton Heston and Fess Parker (Davy Crockett, to you and me) run for the Senate in California. (That would make for a certain symmetry, since the other California seat was once held by Song-and-Dance Man George Murphy...
...asked about a shack in a stakeout scene, replies, "It's just a leftover from some developers who wanted to put up a hotel. We don't go for commercializing public land." Lido is ready to shoot off more than his mouth. "If it's any help," he tells Crockett and Tubbs, "I know how to handle a gun." And hold a grudge...
...that they would die," said San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros. To honor the doomed men who made a stand at the Alamo 150 years ago, some 500 San Antonians and visitors gathered at a commemoration of the historic event last week. All the nearly 200 defenders, including Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, died at the hands of 4,000 Mexican troops. Little more than a month later, General Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans, and Texas had won its independence. The revelers heralded the Alamo's last stand with a deafening musket salute. But the sesquicentennial celebration had its irony. Today...