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Well, a whole lot of help came awful quickly yesterday, and it came in the name of Ellen O'Neill. Just two days after the Crimson had suffered its worst defeat in three years, O'Neill led the squad to a nail-biting 2-1 win over Providence College in Providence...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: O'Neill Saves the Day As Stickwomen Triumph | 9/20/1983 | See Source »

...sensitive about charges that the show is all puff and fluff, a p.r. agent's dream. "We're not curing cancer," says Co-Anchor Hendren. "We want to have fun with it." John Goldhammer, senior vice president at Paramount agrees: "We're not out there to nail people." And except for an occasional sitting duck like Pia Zadora, they never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Turning Show Biz into News | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...life was made different when construction equipment began to dominate sidewalks and landscapes. But the long-term benefits apparently make the unwelcome wake-up calls and the drastic change in scenery more tolerable. Says Davis: "If the youth of America can not stand the noise of someone pounding a nail 100 feet away, the nation has lost its fiber...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Life Among the Scaffolds | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...products winners. The company, for example, broke industry tradition in 1961 when it began selling Cover Girl cosmetics in supermarkets, drugstores and discount centers rather than department stores. It also successfully went its own way by marketing a Limited number of shades for four basic Cover Girl products: lipstick, nail polish, eye makeup and facial makeup. Noxell's competitors usually load up store shelves with a bewildering array of choices. Noxell's policy allows it to hold down costly inventories. According to a report by Merrill Lynch, "Cover Girl has the fastest inventory turnover at retail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Girl Chili | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...Another nail was driven into the coffin of the Confederacy last week when the University of Mississippi announced it will no longer fly the Confederate flag at official university functions...

Author: By Robert M. Nefr, | Title: Down in Dixie | 5/4/1983 | See Source »

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