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Jonah swallowed more than the whale last week. He also gulped down Dynasty, Hotel, Good Morning America, Monday Night Football, the 1988 Winter Olympics and Ted Koppel. It was as simple as, well, ABC. In the first purchase ever of a major television network, small and scrappy Capital Cities Communications (1984 revenues: less than $1 billion) of New York City agreed to buy the American Broadcasting Cos., which is almost four times its size. The price, $3.5 billion for ABC's 29.1 million common shares, made the acquisition the largest outside the oil industry in American corporate history. The razzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Network Blockbuster | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...continued to fight what she thought was a sheltered life by planting herself in unpleasant situations. When her husband Allan received training as an army photographer, her inexperienced hand took up the camera. Her first subject was the bare lightbulb hanging from their ceiling. Later, when a dead whale washed onshore in New Jersey, she took a bus there to photograph the motionless white mass...

Author: By Eunice L. An, | Title: Arbus's Freaky World | 2/13/1985 | See Source »

...list value of a decrepit 1964 Chevy Malibu $20,000? And why is everyone who opens its trunk instantly vaporized? Is it the great white whale of the freeways, or just another of the plot's red herrings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Quartet of Cult Objects | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...loss to Harvard came almost three months ago, the night of The Game. "I'm not sure we're that much different of a team,' Taylor says. So how will Yale Whale on the Crimson tonight, and more importantly, how will the Elis stop the Lane MacDonald-Scott Fusco-Tim Smith line...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Land of Ne'er Do Whales | 2/1/1985 | See Source »

Whatever happens, look for a Whale of a game...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Land of Ne'er Do Whales | 2/1/1985 | See Source »

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