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...miles up the coast from Portland on old Route 1. Its factory outlets sprang from the success of Bean's, founded in Freeport in 1912. It now does $40 million in sales on Main Street and attracts more than 2 million shoppers a year, maybe 2 1/2 million. Edgar Leighton, president of the Merchants' Association, says businessmen looked at those figures and wondered, "How come I'm not getting some of that." So they came to Freeport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: the Offspring of L.L. Bean | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...quickly set about trying to exorcise the new threat. They burned a pile of blue proxy cards that Icahn was using to solicit shares. Women baked heart-shaped cookies with the Phillips 66 logo, sent off a batch to Icahn and stuck in the message "Have a Heart." The Leighton Venn Photography Studio posted a sign: I CAHN/ YOU CAHN/ WE ALL CAHN/ LICK ICAHN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Price of Freedom | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...play's success owes itself to McGovern, best known for her acclaimed screen performances in Ordinary People and Ragtime. McGovern's history of playing sophisticated, mildly brash characters equips her well for the role of Viola, and the physical similarity between her and her stage brother Antonio (John Leighton) makes the ruse all the more entertaining. Although McGovern does have a tendency to draw out the delivery of her lines, disrupting the otherwise lively syncopation of the rest of the cast, her performance is, on the whole, solid...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: What A Night | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

This was, of course, a re-enactment of what happened 200 years ago. It was painstakingly faithful, except that Roger Mudd was on hand to narrate the proceedings for public television. Washington was played by New York Actor Jan Leighton, a remarkable lookalike. Maryland's Governor William Paca was represented by Maryland's current Governor Harry Hughes, no personal resemblance intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Legacy of 1783 | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

Peter Ashton, associate professor of Botany and director of the Arnold Arboretum, and Mark Leighton, assistant professor of Anthropology, attended the conference along with Constable and scientists from various European countries, Israel and Australia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Agent Orange | 3/19/1983 | See Source »

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