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Coca-Cola has made the biggest splash so far. Three years ago the company began a program to put its name on more than 30 different products, including radios and baseball bats. Last year Coke licensed its name to Murjani, the maker of Gloria Vanderbilt jeans, which now offers 125 items of sportswear emblazoned with the cola's trademark. Sales of the clothes have been so effervescent that the beveragemaker opened a Manhattan store called Fizzazz to sell only Coca-Cola clothes. Shoppers sip free cola as they gaze at clothing displays projected onto a 25-ft. wall of viewing...
Summers’ compensation is not unusual among university presidents. Yale University President Richard C. Levin earned $695,025 in total compensation in fiscal year 2003, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. And in the same year, Vanderbilt University Chancellor Gordon Gee raked...
...officer reported to Vanderbilt Hall in response to an alleged assault in which the victim claimed that he or she had been slapped on the hand. A report was filed...
Jarrell's poems were first published in the mid-1930s, when he was still a student at Vanderbilt University. But it was his ferocious reviews of other poets, particularly in the New Republic and the Nation, that made his name and exacting standards widely known. Deciding that Conrad Aiken had become a lazy poet, Jarrell wrote, "He seems as much at ease as Merlin pulling a quarter from a schoolboy's nose." The best of Jarrell's contemporaries learned to fear his scorn but value his insights. Said Karl Shapiro after Jarrell had roughed him up in print: "I felt...
...Vanderbilt made it for supposed “student-fan apathy,” an unacceptable trend given that they’re in the perpetually competitive...