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...hectic Saturday at Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a harried shoe clerk hardly noticed his latest customer as he cleared a space in a mountain of shoe boxes and settled onto his stool -- but then he could hardly believe his eyes. Presenting her dainty soles to the happy salesman was IMELDA MARCOS...
...season opener -- in which Mom tries to greet new neighbors, rent out a room, fend off a suitor and keep the washer and dryer from being repossessed -- is a bit too hectic and overwrought. But the family is believable, and Olivia Burnette is totally winning as Dorothy Jane. With a voice that cracks charmingly at the high end, she can take a routine wisecrack ("They're just an unsuspecting, innocent family. Please don't turn into the Welcome Wagon from hell") and make it a cry of adolescent anguish. A TV kid whose jokes are rooted in real feelings...
...circulation department, was surprised by how many reports he had to turn out. "This is a very memo-driven company," he observed. Columbia graduate student Sallie Binnie, who regularly put in 11-hour days in our business office, did not expect the pace to be quite so hectic. "I kept waiting for that three-martini lunch," she says. "But it never showed...
People in Massachusetts Hall are working at a hectic pace, and the vice presidents say they are extremely busy, trying to help Bok finish up old business--mostly bureacratic details--and easing the transition by turning their attention to the Rudenstine agenda...
...terrific time," says Colvin. After 12 1/2 years at FORTUNE, he admits that TIME's different style and approach required some adjustment. The two magazines, for example, are aimed at largely different readerships. "FORTUNE's readers are managers," he says, "while TIME's readers are consumers." TIME's more hectic, weekly schedule also took some getting used to. "I'm impressed with the speed with which things happen around here," he says. His staff was equally impressed with Colvin's speed at adapting. "He handled an unusually heavy crunch of covers and major breaking stories without missing a beat," says...