Word: marion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fuss is remarkable for a product that wasn't even available seven months ago. Nicoderm, the first patch to be approved by the FDA, arrived on the market just in time to cash in on several million New Year's resolutions. Backed by a massive ad campaign, marketer Marion Merrell Dow Inc. quickly created a huge demand, which soon outstripped supply. That was good news for rival Ciba-Geigy Corp., which now claims more than half the market, in contrast to about 30% for Nicoderm. But Ciba-Geigy, which has already sold more than 70 million Habitrol patches, has been...
Next day, same time, 25th reunion coordinator Marion R. Briefer complained that she was "sort of brain-dead," while 50th and 35 the reunion coordinator Jessica A. Barry pronounced herself "totally burnt out of my mind...fried...
...Gertrude Lawrence's lascivious rendition of The Physician. Some choices bow, gratifyingly, to the obvious. Ethel Merman trumpets Blow, Gabriel, Blow; Fred Astaire croons Night and Day; and Mary Martin purrs her way through My Heart Belongs to Daddy. But more interesting are the unexpected matches and offbeat finds. Marion Harris, a now forgotten star, strikes a provocative balance of plaintive charm and rhythmic sophistication in a 1930 recording of You Do Something to Me. For Miss Otis Regrets, Ethel Waters' well-known version is bypassed in favor of one by blues singer Alberta Hunter because, as album editor Dwight...
...lingering power of whites to devise new ways of preventing black officials from effectively exercising power. Another is that blacks have often failed to support institutions that are vital to the realization of their dreams. Perhaps most damaging is the tendency of many black officials, like former Washington Mayor Marion Barry and Chicago Congressman Gus Savage, to hide their failures in a cynical game of racial politics. Their slogan might be: Support me because I am black, whether or not I deliver. Until quite recently, the slogan worked...
Joshua W. Shenk '93 NIGHT EDITORS: Marion B. Gammill '95 Yin Y. Nawaday '94 Lan N. Nguyen '93 Ivan Oransky '94 Joshua W. Shenk '93 Maggie S. Tucker '93 Joanna M. Weiss '94 FEATURE EDITOR: Philip P. Pan '93 PHOTO EDITORS: Jonathan D. Hamel '94 Michael D. Rosenbaum '94 BUSINESS EDITORS: Nelson E. Famadas...