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...apprentice to a country draper in Basingstoke, England, was used to outfitting the famous. He had, after all, supplied the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen with his gabardine coats when he headed off to the South Pole in 1911. These days, Burberry designer Christopher Bailey outfits quite a different group???including celebs like Uma Thurman and heads of state like Jacques Chirac. ?By Caroline Tell
...last group??President Bush thought he had to worry about opposing Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers was the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill. But it turns out the man most responsible for taking Miers down was an insider, the G.O.P.'s fourth-ranked Senator, Jon Kyl (rhymes with smile). The second-term conservative from Arizona argued at length in meetings with majority leader Bill Frist and G.O.P. whip Mitch McConnell that the Miers nomination was too risky ideologically and too costly politically, sources on Capitol Hill tell TIME. From Day One, says a G.O.P. staff member, "[Kyl] was trying...
...tennis, but she is busier?and richer?than ever. Last year's "retirement" schedule included sportscasting for ABC-TV, playing for the New York Sets in the World Team Tennis league and publishing her monthly womenSport magazine (circ. 200,000). With additional income from advertising endorsements, the King Enterprises group???the financial empire that Billie Jean reigns over with her very supportive husband Larry?will gross more than $1.5 million this year. "I lived on $90 a month as an amateur and I won't forget that"?or repeat...
Arthur Naftalin, a brilliant mayor of Minneapolis during the '60s, points out that no single group???ethnic, religious or business?has ever been able to take control of the state. There were no Tammany machines to greet the immigrants. "With our great variety," says Naftalin, "we have always had to form coalitions...
Snowball Effect. The selling of a record begins with the selling of the recording artist or group???first to the company, then to the public. Company scouts screen processions of talent?sometimes from managers, sometimes from the street, sometimes bearing impressive credits, sometimes clutching a tape recorded in their living room. Says Don Heckman, head of RCA's East Coast "contemporary" operation: "The top 10% of what is available to you is always cream. It doesn't take anything to recognize that someone like Carole King is a monster talent. It is the area between 90% and 40% that...