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...gossip column titled "The Lucky Bag" gave thelocations of parties and names of people with astore of cigarettes which were rational at thetime...
Fueling the debate-and industry gossip mills-are fresh details of Microsoft's hard-nosed business dealings. In a new book called Startup (Houghton Mifflin; $22.95), for example, GO Corp. founder Jerry Kaplan tells how in 1989 his company, hoping to persuade Microsoft to write some software for GO's pen-based computer system, gave Gates and his developers a demonstration of how it worked. Microsoft said it wasn't interested. But two years later, the company unveiled a competing system called Pen Windows that bore an uncanny resemblance to GO's design, even using the same "gestures" to insert...
...Desert Inn Motel, the gossip is of the woman who swims naked in the pool across the street and of the Chinese and Indians who are buying up local motels. Paul Coyle, a 59-year-old retired welder with a long white beard and trembling hands, lives on Social Security and drinks a bottle of 151-proof Bacardi a day. He moved into the motel three months ago, after living in a casino parking lot for two years in his 1967 Cadillac. When his wife left him in 1986, Coyle had the names of his 16 children tattooed...
...more proof that sooner or later, in America everything is show biz-fodder for the great infotainment maw of gossip, nostalgia and exploitation. An ad for the movie's sound track announces: "The Panthers had a calling. Now, so do you. Call 1-800-8-panther to win $1,000 instantly in the Panther 'Power to the People' Sweepstakes." As for Horowitz, his potent grievances have been so well publicized that Mario Van Peebles grouses, "He must have a bigger promotion budget than our film does...
...computer lab paper, this would be free. Very large audience. 3) Make announcements in classrooms. This and the banner methods are strange enough that Crimson News will report it, and you'll get free Crimson advertisement space. Doing both takes a lot of guts, though. 4) Gossip. Cheap, easy and bound to go far. Take at least one of my suggestions...he must be stopped...