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Sticking intently to the one business it knows best, McDonald's has been able to stay clear of Wall Street's merger-and-restructuring mayhem. The single-minded outfit prefers as few distractions as possible from its imperatives of "cleaner, faster, hotter." Diversify? No way, said Chairman Fred Turner recently to a fellow executive. "We have 16,000 rest rooms," noted Turner. "As soon as those are all clean, we'll talk diversification." Considering McDonald's penchant for perfectionism, that time may be a long...
WHEN I FIRST SAW VOLCANO SUNS three years ago, they were a nascent three-piece outfit featuring drummer Peter Prescott, formerly of Mission of Burma. At the time, they were playing with the wretched Ben Vaughan Combo, opening up for a Violent Femmes show. The trio's songs were rough, half-improvised ditties with common foods like popcorn and margarine being the typical subject matter. It's no wonder I did not think much of them...
Something to tell the grandchildren about: At 20-2, this year's Crimson outfit was the first to win 20 regular-season league games, and its 90.9 league winning percentage is the team's second-best of all time...
...young Barry Manilow, just a few years short of his own, more comfortable stardom. Their first rehearsals were "nothing special, almost dull," as Manilow recalls them. "I played and she sang. But then we did it in front of an audience. She came downstairs in this turban and an outfit that could have come from my grandmother's closet. She was a tornado of energy and talent. I was six feet away, and this vision was one of the thunderbolts in my life." Another fan-Aaron Russo, signed on as Midler's manager in 1971, while she was still...
...hall. It is just the place for a brewery, though the last of the old breweries in Vermont went out in the 1890s, as far as anyone knows. There is one brewery in New Hampshire, the big, mass-market Anheuser-Busch operation in Merrimack. And only one very small outfit in Massachusetts, an enterprising Boston pub called the Commonwealth Brewing Co. Ltd., which turns out a variety of sturdy ales and porters for consumption on the premises. It is true that the somewhat misleadingly named Boston Beer Co. sells Samuel Adams, a good, chewy boutique lager that yuppies...