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...Homeless picketed the company's Los Angeles factory and demanded that the down-and-out dolls be recalled. SherStuff, recognizing the value of free publicity, respectfully declined. The dolls, which sell for $45 and up, mean no offense to the homeless, said Designer Ryan Gourley, 33. "I live in Laguna Beach. Half my friends look like that...
...space, Museum Director Paul Smith has assembled "Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical," a wide-ranging exhibition of more than 300 pieces of ceramics, jewelry, textiles and woodwork by 286 contemporary American artisans. The show runs in New York through March 22; it will then travel to Denver, Laguna Beach, Calif., Phoenix, Milwaukee, Louisville and Richmond, Va. "Poetry of the Physical" glistens with a surprising uptown-chic patina. It is sure to shock viewers who think of crafts as a matter of candlesnuffers, quilts and weather vanes. The exhibition is rekindling old arguments over such divisions as utility vs. decoration...
...boldhearted teenage radio hero of the '30s and '40s and who himself went on to become a worthy, if merely life-size, embodiment of his plucky namesake, serving as a much decorated U.S. Air Force officer and helping to oversee the development of atomic-powered satellites; in Laguna Niguel, Calif. The radio serial, which was largely sponsored by Wheaties, got the name for the fictional stalwart of Hudson High from a General Mills executive who had been a college fraternity brother of Armstrong...
...watches little television. While not intellectual, he is tirelessly inquisitive and reads about 30 books a year, preferring historical nonfiction. At 5 ft. 11 in. and 185 lbs., he is a good golfer (handicap: 8), and likes to skin dive and spear fish around his waterfront house in Laguna Beach. But until 1978 he had never really considered sport as anything more than a free-time enthusiasm...
...letter was unearthed from a trove of Nixon's papers in a branch of the National Archives in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Last week Walter Mondale read the passage to campaign audiences to back up his charge that Reagan is guilty of "political grave robbing" when he invokes the names of such Democrats as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman-and, yes, John F. Kennedy. Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes replied that Reagan "had been pleasantly surprised to find the difference between Kennedy the candidate and Kennedy the President...