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...their attempts to follow this [the Nugan Hand investigation] up, Australian investigators questioned their star Nugan Hand witness, George Shaw, who recalled dealings within a Sydney outfit called the Loy Arms Corporation. Shaw hadn't been involved in the details. But Loy's proprietor, Kevin Joseph Loy, acknowledged he had been approached by Wilhelmus Hans on behalf of Nugan Hand. In fact, a search of Loy's records produced copies of a weapons import permit from South Africa, dated September 18, 1975, another import permit from Singapore dated November 4, and an Australian export permit dated November 10--all involving...
Later I dropped by the Sidetrack Tap and fell into another kind of discussion. Wally, the proprietor, was arguing that your books are good for the old home town: "Put us on the map, after all these years," he said. "That's all well and good," Daryl Tollerud replied, "but when they read the map, what are people gonna think?" Daryl had to admit that story you told on him -- about the time he let the skunk into his parents' bedroom -- was pretty funny, but he didn't like you "writing up" what he was doing there, 42 years...
...Journal's contentious editorials are a throwback to the era of opinionated press lords, but with one crucial difference. In the old days, hired editorial guns often mimicked or tried to give literary plausibility to the proprietor's every prejudice, cynically crafting synthetic bluster. Journal editorial writers have more autonomy to frame policy. But before hiring them, the Journal tests to make sure their views are genuinely conservative (liberals need not apply) and that they will not be (in Phillips' words) "preoccupied with trying to find the middle of the road." Provocative opinionating, Phillips believes, "makes a stronger contribution...
Perhaps the most puzzling question surrounding Cosby is why, after a long career that seemed to have plateaued somewhere short of superstardom, he suddenly found himself the proprietor of TV's biggest hit of the decade. By most objective standards, The Cosby Show is an unlikely candidate for through- the-roof success. In contrast, say, to the Norman Lear comedies of the early '70s, it breaks little new ground in style or subject matter. It has none of the gag-writing brio of The Mary Tyler Moore Show or a half a dozen comedies that followed it. Indeed, The Cosby...
More outposts are being readied for opening. In Santa Barbara, Calif., Steven Sponder, proprietor of the Cajun-Creole Palace Cafe, is planning Key Largo, scheduled to open next January. "In one word, it's Hemingway," says Sponder of his new venture. Bruce Monette of Southern Exposure in Boulder has big dreams for his Southern and Caribbean food, to be served in a 19th century stone building. "It will appeal to students, professionals, Buddhist vegetarians and steak-and-potato traditionalists," he boasts...