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...plans -- and then there she was for millions to view, on the Phil Donahue show. Linda Ellerbee, the tart-tongued Texan beloved by night-owl viewers from her days on nbc News Overnight and by early-morning types because of her popular "T.G.I.F." feature each week on Today, had quit the network in a salary dispute. She was known to be dickering with ABC, and CBS had offered her the co-anchor slot on its perennially low-rated but soon-to-be-overhauled Morning News. Now word was out: she was on the verge of signing with ABC, reportedly...
...said the study showed that smokers who quit had lower rates of heart disease than unrepentant smokers, and averred that the Reynolds ad misrepresented the study results. Reynolds officials insisted that their p.r. effort was simply an editorial position and was thus protected by the First Amendment. The FTC's complaint, said a company spokesman, is "a misuse of its investigative powers." Reynolds has retained well-known First Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams as an adviser before a hearing next month by an FTC administrative-law judge on the charges...
...sense, paradise is precisely what's lost. Nothing is more incorruptible than what is irretrievable. And just as a good man, once dead, becomes a saint, so a nice place, once quit, becomes an Eden. As the years slide by, the places we have visited are steadily pushed back to an enchanted distance, and memory, the mind's great cosmetician, begins to remove wrinkles, soften edges, touch up the past in a golden glow. The 26-hour bus trip, the simultaneous swarm of hucksters and mosquitoes, the revolutions of the stomach are all forgotten or, better yet, transfigured into...
...baby gal,/ Can't go nowhere." Spires said they get together about once a month, and they never "need no training up," so accustomed are they to one another's rhythms. "Say it loud and draw a crowd!" Bud Spires hollered as Jack Owens wailed, "You're tryin' to quit me now,/ But you don't know how." It began raining, and fat drops played the roof while the two friends played on: "Give me yoh money, baby gal,/ Let me use it for myself." Whiskey pints circled round and round and round the porch. In this fashion, the afternoon...
...seen a man knifed. Son was working on a clay sculpture of a skull, in which he inserted real teeth he got from a dental college in Oxford. As he worked on his porch, he recalled his years as a gravedigger, a job he did not want to quit "until my back started giving me trouble...