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...ever seen in one body." Lance Corporal Jeffrey Nashton of Jacksonville, N.C., reached up and grabbed Kelley's four stars to make sure he was who he said he was. In response to Nashton's signals, a pad of paper was put in his hand. He wrote, "Semper Fi,"short for the Marine motto Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful). Reagan was so moved by the account that he repeated Kelley's words verbatim during his televised speech last week. Added Reagan: "It says more than any of us could ever hope to say about the gallantry and heroism...
...reason she quit, said Cunningham, 32, was to devote herself full time to Semper Corp., the venture-capital firm that she co-founded with former Bendix Chairman William Agee, 45, in June 1982, the same month the two were married. She said her job at Seagram, developing a strategic plan for its wine business, culminated last month with Seagram's announcement of plans to buy Coca-Cola's Wine Spectrum division for about $200 million. But Cunningham's efforts to take partial credit for the purchase were met with skepticism from some industry observers. Moreover, Seagram Chairman...
...Marietta-United Technologies-Allied takeover wrangle. Cunningham wrote the book at the home she shares with Agee, a $1.9 million turn-of-the-century house in Cape Cod's Oyster Harbors. There they have built an office, complete with a partners' desk, from which they will run Semper...
Birnbach said "Official Preppy" T-shirts, book bags, and stationery will go on sale this summer to publicize an imaginary preppy college with the motto "semper prepperadus." Also, an "Official Preppy Desk Diary" is in the making, complete with a section for "confessions of summer flings with non-preppies...
Reviewing the Hasty Pudding Show is sort of like reviewing Halley's Comet--it just comes around at regular intervals, and everybody sees it. The show's great strength is predictability--its motto might be semper eadem. And if you think predictability in theater sounds like a bad thing, well, you're in the minority--the lady ahead of me in the box office line bought 40 tickets. Opening night audience members paid $25 each for the extra privilege of seeing the Man of the Year ceremony and getting soaked in champagne...