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...Cornelia's latter-day West Side joint. One of her six best friends, Howard Stein, 40, runs the place. The other five best pals: her mother, brother, one of her two agents-Cornelia hopes to model and endorse cosmetics-a movie producer, and Stein's wife, Tawn, 32. This afternoon Stein is explaining how to sing "these soulful songs with percussive interludes." Tonight is to be Cornelia's second public performance as a rock-'n'-roll singer. Last fall she stood up and sang a tune or two at a Xenon party ("People begged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: A Deb Sings at Xenon | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...paragraph 2, The Crimson prepetuates a widely-repeated misnomer by referring to the Moroccan city of "Tangiers." It is Algiers, with an "s" that is the captial of Algeria. The singular TANGIER (no "s") is where Burroughs lived and wrote for many years. In French, the city is "Tanger" (tawn-JAY); the city was named by ancient Phoenicians, as something like "Tahn-ja," which is how many contemporary Arabic-or better Berber-speaking Moroccans refer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harberger's Record | 2/6/1980 | See Source »

...Began Underground. The product's prospects were further heightened last month when Tawn Limited, a subsidiary of McKesson Laboratories, the giant drug wholesaler, bought the production and distribution rights. Until then, Cupid's Quiver was produced by Joseph Laboratories in Los Angeles, a tiny, one-product firm formed this year by Hylton Socher, a public relations man, and Harvey Meyerhoff, a graphics designer. They had acquired the product from Michael Intrator, a musician, who had developed it. For a time, he sold Cupid's Quiver through ads in the Los Angeles Free Press and other underground newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Unlikeliest Product | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Tawn's immediate strategy is to build the product's image by selling it through as many prestige outlets as possible and then move it heavily into drugstores. The only loser in this unlikely success story is Marsteller. Tawn executives last week switched the $500,000 account to Kane Light Gladney Inc., which is McKesson's ad agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Unlikeliest Product | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...lineup follows: 1921. Radio School. Anderson, DeFord, Finely, l.e. r.e., Durbin Faxon, Satter, Hamilton, l.t. r.t., Ferris, Tawn, Peck Hooker, Roberts, l.g. r.g., McKenzie Havemeyer, Cabot, McAdames, c. c., Johnson Olmstead, Tower, Mills, r.g. l.g., Holmes Frothingham, Gaston, r.t. l.t., Daun, Bonawitz Lee, Davis, Thayer, r.e. l.e., Oviatt, Gibson Jenney, Wales, q.b. q.b., Richter, McClure E. Stillman, Cummings, Cumner, l.h.b. r.h.b., Michael Sweeney, Pantaleoni, r.h.b. l.h.b., Tuttle Humphrey, Butterfield, f.b. f.b., Kolf

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1921 VANQUISHED RADIO TEAM | 10/8/1917 | See Source »

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