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...recent monthlong visit to New York City, Ali Dickson drove from L.A. because the airlines deemed it too cold to allow her German shepherd, Summer, to fly in the cargo bay. She stayed nearly exclusively at Loews hotels, which offer doggie room service, Loews Loves Pets bowls and mats, and a dog passport to document her travels. The valets in Nashville, Tenn., had bones for Summer, and they let her owner know whether other dogs had checked into the hotel and what floor they were on. "She loved the hotel. When she got in the room, she would gallop around...
...Toot Tootsie--cut through the opening-night audience at the Warner Theatre near Times Square like an obstetrician's scissors severing the umbilical cord to silent films, for 30 years the dominant screen language. But the movies had to talk. Thomas Edison thought so. He and his assistant W.K.L. Dickson had devised a talking-movie machine as early as 1889. In the early '20s short sound films appeared featuring vaudeville and opera stars. These were sensible, tentative steps; now the maverick Warner brothers made a great leap of faith. Their Jazz Singer wasn't a true "talkie''; it broke free...
...Dickson Brothers—the Square’s sole hardware store—has sold out of both supplies...
Stromberg says he went to Dickson Brothers’ Hardware Store in the Square and purchased both a showerhead to fix the water pressure problem and a shower curtain...
...superpower, but on Azerbaijan, which hopes to triple its production to a million barrels a day when the pipeline opens in 2005. THE BOURSE Not So Fabulous, Darling Retailer Harvey Nichols - Harvey Nicks of sitcom Absolutely Fabulous fame - hasn't amused investors lately. So Dickson Poon, who floated 49.9% of the company at $4.20 a share in 1991, is taking it back for $3.87 Chocolate War Truce Activists in Pennsylvania pulled off a surprise coup as the Hershey Trust gave in to local opposition and stopped the sale of the confectioner, despite a bid by Wrigley of $12.5 billion. Discredited...