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...with the famed comet due to begin its streak across the horizon in November, the hyping of Halley's is once again in full swing. At last count, 80 companies around the country were selling tens of thousands of items related to the celestial itinerant. Enterprising pitchmen are hawking comet coins, medals, travel bags, pendants, posters, glow-in-the-dark pencils, hair glitter and, in playful memory of visitations past, yogurt-flavored comet pills. More than three dozen books on Halley's compete for attention. Consumers can choose among Halley's T shirts, emblazoned with slogans such...
...DIED. THURL RAVENSCROFT, 91, versatile voice-over specialist whose booming "Gr-r-eat!" made Tony the Tiger, the mascot of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes (known in some parts of the world as Frosties), one of TV's most recognized commercial pitchmen; in Fullerton, California. "I've made a career out of one word," he once said...
DIED. THURL RAVENSCROFT, 91, versatile voice-over specialist whose booming "Gr-r-eat!" made Tony the Tiger, mascot of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, one of TV's most recognized commercial pitchmen; of prostate cancer; in Fullerton, Calif. "I've made a career out of one word," he said...
...some kind of vague demonstration of the student body’s confidence. And maybe they’re right. Maybe their desire for support really does warrant a non-stop apparatus of peer pressure, incentives, and class division year after year. Maybe it does warrant turning friends into pitchmen, dangling influence, and telling me that another student’s symbolic donation means more than mine. And so maybe, when I graduate, I will not crumple the letters from the Alumni Association that will begin arriving Friday, June...
...because the device talks to a receiver plugged into the USB jack. For the long-winded exec, the Presenter has a timer that counts down, vibrating in your hand when time's almost up. Available at logitech.com in February, this little gizmo lacks just one thing--what paid-programming pitchmen call a low-low price. It will cost around...