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...figurines sold out so fast that Kenner, their maker, started mailing out empty boxes with IOUs...
DIED. Bernard Loomis, 82, canny toy marketer known as "the man who invented Saturday morning" for pioneering the production of TV shows that promoted toys; in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Working for toy giants Mattel, Kenner and Hasbro from the 1950s to the 1990s, Loomis developed hits, including Star Wars action figures--demand was once so high he gave IOUs to consumers while more toys were made--and a cartoon featuring Hot Wheels cars...
...four months on the job, Riley has received praise for firing at least 86 officers and working to better track gangs and repeat offenders. On Monday, Riley enjoyed a moment of satisfaction after police arrested Ivory Harris, New Orleans' most-wanted murder suspect, in the neighboring town of Kenner. Harris had been bouncing back and forth between Houston and New Orleans since the storm, wreaking havoc in both cities, police say. Eight days earlier, police had arrested one of the city's other wanted men: Jerome Hampton, 23, whom Houston police have charged with killing another evacuee. Hampton was nabbed...
FEMA continues to be a four-letter word in Louisiana. In Kenner and Metairie, suburbs west of New Orleans, blue tarps provided by FEMA dot the roofs of homes damaged by wind, but there are few in the worst-affected neighborhoods like Lakeview, the Ninth Ward and East New Orleans--a policy defended by the agency. "What's to protect?" asks FEMA spokeswoman Nicol Andrews in Washington. She argues, like the insurance companies, that most of the damage east of New Orleans was from floodwaters, not wind. Tarps, she says, would be a waste of money. "There are still houses...
Buckley's microelectronic baptism took place late in the winter of 1982 while he was visiting the Baltimore home of Critic Hugh Kenner. There, Kenner introduced him to a vintage Heathkit/ Zenith model Z-89 computer. The next month Buckley purchased his first system: a secondhand Z-89 with a Diablo printer and a copy of the pioneering Pie word processing program. Buckley took the gear along on his annual winter pilgrimage to Switzerland where, guided by 16 pages of instructions prepared by Kenner, he turned out in only five weeks his 20th book, Overdrive (Doubleday...