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...investigative reporter," says Horowitz, 43, a former NBC News correspondent. "Our show is basically the opposite end of what they do on Madison Avenue. Fewer and fewer people believe commercials-with good reason." The Tonka Toy Co. ran an ad that showed one of its toy trucks surviving a stomping by an elephant. Horowitz got his own Tonka and submitted it to pachyderm pummeling at the Los Angeles Zoo. When the vehicle was removed from the cage, it was crushed flatter than a shadow...
...last December led by bestsellers "with the style and flair," like gold lace blouses $600 apiece. Gucci has leather jeans at $500 a pair, while Doney's café on the Via Veneto is finding buyers for a $100 wicker basket holding only a bottle of champagne, a toy dog and a small package of chocolates...
Lazarus sold his four Toys R Us outlets to Interstate Stores in 1966 for $7.5 million in cash, and he took over management of Interstate's toy operation. The company was overextended, though, and it went bankrupt in 1974. Yet Toys R Us stores flourished even while Interstate was going through bankruptcy, and it emerged from the court-ordered reorganization in 1978 as the surviving company. The firm's sales have nearly doubled since then to reach $597 million in the fiscal year ending last Feb. 1 , with profits coming to $28.9 million. Lazarus has opened...
...game, which students at Harvard briefly played last year requires players to "kill" their opponents using toy guns until only one player remains...
However, Butler said the two students were simply playing a game like "hide and seek," with the toy guns and were not involved in the game of "Assassin...