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...carry the message, the ad agencies are signing up a host of aging TV and movie stars. Among the familiar faces: Wilford Brimley for Quaker Oats, Art Carney for Coca-Cola Classic, Barbara Billingsley and Jane Wyatt for Milk of Magnesia and Buddy Ebsen for McDonald's. Special modeling agencies have sprung up to meet the growing demand for mature actors for commercials. At the Ford agency, a division called Classic Woman offers a group of 30 models over age 40. Senior Class, a New York City agency started last year, books 200 men and women 50 to 80. Among...
...pioneer and chief practitioner of this new art is Norman Whan, a former insurance telemarketing consultant, who runs a nonprofit Los Angeles-based organization called Church Growth Development International. Whan, 46, a Quaker, specializes in starting up brand-new churches, using a target of 200 members as the number needed for a self-sustaining congregation. "When you ask 20,000 people," explains Whan, "you can get at least 200 to do anything." In addition to canvassing, Whan has conducted "The Phone's for You!" seminars for 2,000 Protestant congregations from Canada to Florida (cost per attendee: $295). Another...
...Next Trick, I'll Right a Book: When asked to describe how he became an integral member of the Penn basketball team in just a couple weeks, Quaker freshman walk-on Paul Chambers replied, "I'm not going to say. I'm going to write a book...
...This is the story of someone truly playing his way into college basketball," the Quaker coach added...
...NOTEBOOK: Penn's Cheryl Rath became the Quaker's all-time leading scorer when she hit a three-pointer in the first half. Rath now has 1204 points during her Penn career...Harvard shot 54 percent from the field...Penn shot 41 percent...Penn's media guide contains a section on players interests. Guard Kathy Boden's interests include tropical fish...The Crimson looks to extend its winning Ivy ways when it travels to Yale and Brown this weekend...