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...reaching €95 million sales. Global ad revenue leapt more than 5%, the biggest jump in five years. But for really screaming headlines, look to the developing world. While circulation of dailies skidded further in North America and Europe, growing populations, literacy rates and disposable income, as well as slicker distribution channels, have helped drive newspaper sales in developing markets. In China, for example, sales have grown by more than a quarter over the last five years. Not surprisingly, Western publishers are eyeing the fledgling markets, says Jim Chisholm, adviser to WAN. "Internationalization is a growing theme of our business...
...created a revolution in marketing: the mail-order catalog. Known as the great wish book, Ward's catalog provided the mostly rural U.S. population with everything a family needed, from swaddling clothes and calico to barbed wire and tombstones. Over the years, the catalog grew thicker and slicker. Among the fashion models who graced its pages were Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward and Suzy Parker. But competition from more specialized retailers gradually eroded the selling power of the book. Last week Montgomery Ward President Bernard Brennan announced that the last catalog will be mailed to its 5 million recipients in December...
...athletic director for the Midland Independent School District, was explaining the day before the game. Outside, fat drops of rain fell in sheets that turned the streets to rivers and flooded the stadium just beyond Bartosh's window. Just then a dripping grounds keeper came in to fetch a slicker. "It's gone," he said of the field. "I been out there. I got water plumb out." Bartosh canceled the junior varsity game that had been scheduled for that night, saying, "We don't want to tear up the field for junior varsity...
...York porn was both slicker and edgier, more professional, as were its actors. Gillis cites a Shakespeare gig he did for Manhattan's Classic Stage Company. Eric Edwards starred in a Close-Up toothpaste commercial; it was pulled when he was spotted in a porn loop. In his 1975 memoir Here Comes Harry Reems (quoted in The Other Hollywood), the actor recalls, "I was doing Coriolanus in some marginal coffeehouse where they passed the hat around at the end of the performance." He got more valuable training when he signed on with two burlesque vets...
Lead prosecutor Tom (Mad Dog) Sneddon, for 22 years district attorney of California's Santa Barbara County, tried to take command of the case early, with forceful but empathic questioning. Legal analysts have scoffed that he is a relative bumpkin next to the slicker, more experienced defense team, but this deeply religious father of nine has a near perfect legal record. And Sneddon knows how to talk to the jury, which may be more comfortable with his small-town style...