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...widely recorded debut came in 1893, when it was worn by polo players at the swank Hurlingham Club, near Buenos Aires. Compared with traditional British polo wear of the era, the new tops were cooler and less restrictive. In 1920 one of Argentina's polo stars, Lewis Lacey, opened a sports shop in Buenos Aires, where he sold the shirt embossed with the logo of a player astride a pony. Within a few years moneyed gentry began donning custom-made polo shirts as leisure wear on the French Riviera and at other international watering spots...
...selling shirts with a polo-player logo. The firm fired off a letter to Vannucci accusing him of copying its trademark. The clothier replied that his logo, which depicts a polo player from a different angle than Lauren's does, was designed in 1920 by none other than Lewis Lacey. Polo/Ralph Lauren nonetheless filed suit in Buenos Aires, charging Vannucci with trademark similarity. The case is still in court...
...alternative weeklies have their roots in the counterculture protest papers of the 1960s, but like their readers, most of the editors these days are a bit more materialistic. The Phoenix New Times (circ. 130,000) was operated by a collective until Publisher Jim Larkin and Editor Michael Lacey bought the paper in 1977 after they had left the group. Now New Times has annual ad revenues of $6.2 million. Says Larkin: "We've gone from being a collective to being champions of free enterprise...
Other alternative publishers can tell similar tales. Phoenix New Times Editor Lacey once resorted to digging ditches and selling blood to keep going. But the hardships often pay off in financial and psychic dividends. "Being a small independent voice is fun," says North Carolina Independent Publisher Steve Schewel. So is making money by giving your work away...
When one of the students attempted to flee, a safety officer chased him and dropped his gun. The officer failed to notice that it was missing until another student pointed it out, according to Lacey...