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...schedules have sitcom and drama vehicles in the works for Richard Dreyfuss, Ellen DeGeneres, Jason Alexander and on NBC - and I only wish I were kidding - Food Network chef Emeril Lagasse. (Note to NBC personnel: first person to say "Bam!" within an arm's length of me gets a Scripto up their nostril...
...seemed to find more comfortable to use than the rounder form of the Cricket. Such preferences helped boost the Bic model last year to an estimated 53% share of the $325 million U.S. market for disposable lighters, vs. Cricket's 16%. Gillette was third in the race behind Scripto, which accounted for 24% of 1983 sales...
...sure as you are a jiveass nigger, some well-meaning intellectuals will be picking through your soul... will be picking through your dirty drawers, and undoubtedly some frail lady will turn your dead cock over with the tip of her Scripto looking for "meaning." But they will not find it here, not the same meaning they find in fine "homes" in the Berkeley hills, Wall Street, PepsiCola, Perry Como, Toilets, Nixon, crew cuts, and Cadillacs. You will have them understand what you mean by jive...
Perhaps God decided to pay them back. Their peerless outfielders Tom Agee and Ron Swoboda (a relic of the days of the hapless Mets) began making supernatural catches. Bonn Clendenon, who at the start of the season was a seller of Scripto pens, hit three home runs. Infielder Al Weis, a man who had never harmed anyone in his life, tied the last game with a home run. And when the Mets could not hit, they found other, more devious ways of arriving at first base. Not even the umpire, for instance, knew that Batter Cleon Jones had been...
Many other companies, including Consolidated Foods, Scripto and Burlington Industries, are turning a hard eye on expansion plans, especially for 1970. "We'll spend around $275 million this year, as we had figured to do," says Goodyear Chairman Russell DeYoung. "But next year we'll be looking at all our proposed projects with more caution. Possibly outlay will be down." Adds a Firestone official: "Some cutbacks are likely next year." Demand for business loans has begun to taper. The Federal Reserve Board last week announced that loans at major banks declined in July for two weeks, dropping...