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Meanwhile, officials of Jeffrey Martin Inc., the company that makes the appetite-suppressant candy Ayds, claim they have no trouble with their product's name. The company reports that sales of Ayds were up slightly for the fiscal year that ended July 31. Says Frank DiPrima, executive vice president of Jeffrey Martin: "This product has been named Ayds for more than 45 years. Let the disease change its name." INVESTMENTS Abdul-Jabbar's Tall Story...
...hero of World Series Game 3 in St. Louis was Veteran Second Baseman Frank White, Kansas City's most thoroughly homegrown player, who moved up to fourth in the batting order for the American Leaguers' odd year of nine-man baseball, when "Hired Hitter" Hal McRae became a designated sitter. A graduate of the defunct Kansas City Royals Baseball Academy, White was raised in the shadow of the old ballpark at Second and Brooklyn, but not to be a cleanup hitter. "When I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as the next guy," he said after smashing...
...added insurance, the center will stockpile seeds of some of the species at the Department of Agriculture's Fort Collins, Colo., seed-storage facility. That way, says Frank Thibodeau, the center's scientific director, "despite power losses, hurricanes, fires or any other natural disaster that could befall a greenhouse or garden, we will always have the seeds available for study and propagation...
...from the book certain characteristics by which born criminals could be identified, some of which were "profusion of hair on the head, sparsity of hair on the face, and lean jaws constantly in motion," whereupon one of the students called out, "You have just described my wife!" Frank Jost Newson Edmonton, Alta...
...almost a half-century, Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward were inseparably joined by the name of their Roman Catholic publishing house, Sheed & Ward. But to their son they were powerfully eccentric individuals who happened to be linked by marriage. Frank was first and last "the man at the piano," demonstrating his photographic memory for the music and lyrics of any song he had heard more than once. He had risen, noisily, from the Australian working class. Maisie, eight years Frank's senior, proceeded from a long line of English-gentry Catholics for whom being Catholic constituted a full-time career...