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...founder of Jacoby & Meyers Law Offices. He is talking about the middle-class folks who had never before ventured into a lawyer's office but who now flock at the rate of 100 a month to each of the 27 J & M branches situated in Montgomery Ward stores throughout California. One reason for the heavy traffic is the firm's industry-leading television advertising budget: $1.7 million in 1980. Typically, the spots stress J & M's $20 consultation fee and the written estimate of future charges. The firm's most popular service, divorce, usually costs...
...consequence for U.S. forces in West Germany is not just low morale; there is a growing concern that they could not mobilize quickly enough to ward off a Warsaw Pact attack. According to Maxwell D. Taylor, retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shortages of well-maintained equipment and of supply units generally mean that in Europe and elsewhere "regular divisions, no matter how prepared themselves, are not in fact ready to perform their combat missions...
...them could outdraw the founder, who hung up his pencil early to assume the role of a demanding, inspiring editor. Though Walt tended to get the credit for everything that came out of the studio, its style was really the creation of many artists, each one honing a speciality. Ward Kimball, Les Clark and Frank Thomas were particularly adept at complicated fast-moving action sequences, while Art Babbitt concentrated on large, slow, furry creatures like Goofy and the Big Bad Wolf. Grim Natwick, who created Betty Boop for another studio, was the early specialist in femininity. Eric Larson...
...walked into Lauterbach's Cottage Hardware Store, grabbed an ax and began swinging. By the time he left, one person was dead and two others were critically injured. Ten days later, police got a call from Bobby Joe Kyle, a patient in the 49-bed psychiatric ward at St. John's Hospital, who claimed that his roommate had confessed to the crime. Unfortunately, Kyle did not know his roommate's name. He asked Nurse Elaine McCall to identify him, but she refused. Reason: McCall believed his name was shielded by a state law guaranteeing the privacy...
...volumes have been translated into twelve languages. The crowd expects his office to be bucolic and full of ewes and kine. Instead, it is a white-walled infirmary redolent of disinfectant, with nothing to distinguish it but a red door. They hope that Herriot will resemble Simon Ward, the actor who impersonated him in the TV adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small. But they see a ruddy, pleasant, 64-year-old grandfather, caparisoned in jacket and tie even when stepping through the mire of cattle pens. His voice bears no taint of the Yorkshire dialect permeating his books. When...