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Gordon, together with his beauty-queen wife Brooke, is featured on packages of Close-Up toothpaste. Once a top seller in the '70s, the Chesebrough-Pond's brand is using Gordon and his wife to retool the product. With their faces on 3.5 million collectible packages and 25,000 store displays, the company says it has gained record market share."It's been phenomenal," says Nancy Heller, brand manager for Close-Up. "We thought it was going to be a regional program, and to our surprise, we were able to do this nationally...
...those companies have survival instincts of their own. "There's no way to overestimate how important this problem is to our customers and to us," says Michael Sansolo, senior vice president at the Food Marketing Institute, which represents most of the country's food wholesalers and retailers. "If the store's not open with food on the shelves, we don't make any money...
Barry Goldwater liked to tell a story about his Uncle Morris, who ran the family dry-goods store in Prescott, Ariz., at the turn of the century. The town bluenoses, so the story goes, got word that one of Morris' salesgirls had once been a hooker, and a group of housewives descended on the store to demand that she be fired as an act of civic hygiene...
...accident that we tend to locate the defining artistic moments of recent decades in TV and other popular media, whereas in earlier decades we found them in, say, literature or painting. This stems from the other convulsion the century had in store for the arts in addition to World War I. (Oddly, it wasn't World War II. That conflict's primary impact came from the waves of European artists who fled Nazism for the U.S., enriching the country's homegrown arts and shifting the center of gravity in such fields as painting and classical music...
...student who purchased the alcohol had his driver's license suspended and was ordered to pay a $285 fine. The student who waited outside the liquor store was ordered to pay a $50 fine...