Word: victorias
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Banana Republic? Yes. If a growing number of companies have their way, there will be a lot more memories like that. Retail chains are working hard to link their brands with the music younger customers want to hear. In recent years the Gap, Banana Republic, Victoria's Secret, the Pottery Barn and others have produced their own CDs and sold them at their checkout counters. Last week a new player was announced: Philip Morris, the world's largest cigarette maker...
...With reporting by Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Tammerlin Drummond/Miami and Victoria Rainert/New York
Most of us, I know, see the current frenzy in a very different light. We hear that L.L. Bean, J. Crew and Victoria's Secret are all but drained of hiking boots, chamois shirts and silk tap pants; we read in the newspapers of waiting lists for $4,000 handbags and $75,000 automobiles. And from every TV set, newspaper and magazine the purveyors of the modern-day bazaar hawk every imaginable consumable, potable and disposable...
Many of the couple's most famous discoveries were hers. One of the earliest occurred in October 1948, when Mary caught the glint of a tooth during an expedition to Lake Victoria's fossil-rich Rusinga Island. It was part of the jaw and skull fragments of a creature called Proconsul africanus, then widely thought to be a human ancestor (though now considered more closely related to the apes). The discovery made them so "exhilarated and also utterly content with each other," Mary wrote in her 1984 biography, Disclosing the Past, "that we cast aside care..." She gave birth...
BORN: Sept. 6, 1931, Detroit EDUCATION: U of Chicago, B.A., 1952; Columbia U, M.A., 1954; Harvard U, LL.B., 1957 FAMILY: Wife, Victoria; four children RELIGION: Jewish MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Michigan Senate, 1965-71; Democratic nominee for Governor, 1970, 1974; U.S. House, 1982- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1092, Warren...