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Certainly, at his death, the designer was at the height of his powers, with his fashion house stitching together numbers as eye catching as its merchandise. The profits of Gianni Versace SpA, which puts its Medusa-head logo on everything from $15,000 evening gowns to $395 bath-towel sets, soared from $7.9 million in 1990 to $43.5 million in 1996. Worldwide sales of Versace-brand products, including items manufactured by licensed companies, are on track to top $1 billion this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL THE VERSACE FASHION EMPIRE SURVIVE? | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

Often, there is the temptation to just let it all go and throw in the towel...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Following the Worse Path | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

...generosity of John Pepper, a member of Yale's class of 1960, who is CEO of Proctor and Gamble, will likely lead to the installation of paper towel and soap dispensers in all undergraduate student bathrooms at Yale College next year...

Author: By Yale News, | Title: The Ivy Roundup | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

Princeton's coach Bill Carmody commented on Harvard's unwillingness to throw in the towel...

Author: By Benjamin O. Shuldiner, | Title: M. Basketball Ripped Apart by Tigers | 2/22/1997 | See Source »

Ozell Sutton was one of three agents from the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Justice Department who were at the motel that evening. Sutton's roommate at the Lorraine was another CRS agent, James Laue, who rushed from their room onto the balcony with the towel that Ralph David Abernathy used to cushion King's head. According to Sutton, he was never questioned by the FBI and, to the best of his knowledge, neither was Laue, who has since died. Neither of them saw anything, says Sutton, but he's troubled by the fact that the FBI never tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIVIDING LINE: THE MYSTERIES OF JAMES EARL RAY | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

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