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Meanwhile, a different form of shamateurism was blossoming in the West. To support themselves, athletes began to accept under-the-table appearance money at meets, as well as bribes from sportswear manufacturers. Colleges and universities awarded athletic scholarships that were euphemistically called grants-in-training but that technically made their recipients into professionals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traditions Pro Vs. Amateur | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...rights, Calvin Klein, one of the patron saints of American sportswear, should be cleaning up in this market. He was one of the first to launch a lower-priced collection: Classifications, first sold in 1983, was discontinued in 1988. These days, though, his lower-priced Calvin Klein Sport division, which last year accounted for nearly 80% of all business at Calvin Klein, Inc., has been floundering. Company sales in 1990 fell to $197 million, ) down from $225 million in 1989. Even worse, the firm lost more than $4 million and carries long-term debt of close to $68 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Why Chic Is Now Cheaper | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...Linda Evangelista looking like a Scottish schoolgirl on the cover of Vogue. Or Christy Turlington gazing serenely from an ad for Calvin Klein's Eternity perfume. Naomi. Linda. Christy. They're everywhere. Vogue, Elle, feature pages, ad pages, gossip pages. Selling couture and catalogs, soap and sportswear. And during the fall fashion shows these three have sashayed their impossibly sleek, improbably long-legged frames down the runways in New York City, Paris and Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing Beauty and The Bucks | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...letter to the April 18 Cambridge Chronicle: Recently the licensing committee at Harvard has indicated to Coed Sportswear that it would refuse authorization allowing us to include the Harvard name in our college Coed Naked Sports series of T-shirts and sweats. The reason given for this "probable" refusal was that the use of the word "Naked" was "poking fun" at Harvard and in some way demeaning to our venerable Cambridge institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Required Reading | 4/19/1991 | See Source »

...denial of the rights of freedom of expression upon which Harvard's liberal reputation is built. Our product line has considerable more character than a Fred Flintstone in a Harvard loin cloth as depicted in Forbes magazine, October 29 1990 on page 126. Mark R. Lane Coed Sportswear, Third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Required Reading | 4/19/1991 | See Source »

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