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Lewis engineered the rise of TLC through two major buyouts. In 1983, he led a $22.5 million buyout of McCall PatternCo., a dress-pattern maker which he sold to aBritish business four years later for $63 million...
...Minutes secretly filmed baby brokers in Romania negotiating with parents for the sale of their children to Americans. "The word got out here in the States that kids could be easily had in Romania, as long as you brought enough money," says a senior U.S. immigration official. For David McCall, the adoption of his Romanian-born son, two-year-old Adrian, felt uncomfortably like baby buying. "When we started out trying to adopt, it was going to cost $2,500," says the Houston teacher. "In the end we paid $5,000, and I can't really tell you where...
...when they gather at their back fences or around office water coolers, they discuss them as avidly as they do the shows that surround them. The five-day Cannes festival celebrates the wit and imagination that prompt that interest. As New Zealander John Doig of the McCaffrey and McCall agency put it, "We come here to remind ourselves that ads don't just sell. They also make the little hairs stand up on the back of the neck...
...Mary McCall, a sophomore at Pine Manor College who said she goes to the Pi "four nights out of seven," said her experiences at the club have been positive ones...
After Jack McCall shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back during an afternoon poker game in the Saloon Number 10 a century ago, gambling became a part of the rugged Wild West image prized by Deadwood, S. Dak. But in the 1960s the tiny town (pop. 1,900) nestled in the Black Hills outlawed gambling. And when the town's four brothels were shut down as public nuisances by a posse of federal, state and local law-enforcement personnel in 1980, Deadwood's tourist trade began to fade. "When we had open gambling here, when we had the cathouses...