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Nebraska's Governor served as an unpaid model in a recent Lands' End mail- order catalog promoting the company's attache bag. Now Democratic opponent Ben Nelson is complaining that the publicity from the ad constitutes an undeclared contribution to her re-election campaign...
...since 1985. Estimated price: $40 million. Once America's top toy merchant, Schwarz was - losing customers by the early 1980s to competitors like Toys "R" Us. But Morse-Harris revived the firm by closing unprofitable locations, moving the flagship store to grander quarters farther up Fifth Avenue and boosting catalog sales. KBB's plans for Schwarz include its first European and Japanese outlets...
...petty and meanspirited. He fittingly closes with a bit of celebrity mugging that serves as a pathetic epitaph for his putative patron. In a group invited to Warhol's house after his death, Colacello takes the opportunity to steal into Warhol's private bathroom so that he can catalog the anti-aging cosmetics and acne ointments for inclusion on the last page of this book. These two creatures of hype and commerce masquerading as art may have deserved each other. But this book does not deserve even a Warholian 15 minutes...
...scored a major coup that year when it paid $125 million to buy CBS's music-publishing division, which held the rights to more than 200,000 songs ranging from Over the Rainbow to the score from Hair. Less than three years later, SBK turned around and sold the catalog to Thorn EMI, the British entertainment giant, for $295 million. As part of that deal, EMI gave $30 million to Koppelman and Bandier (Swid had left to start his own firm) to start a record division. The joint venture allows SBK to keep its discoveries on its own label, which...
...showroom sales where, on certain days, customers can buy overstock fashions from Donna Karan, Perry Ellis, Oscar de la Renta and other top designers for 50% off. Well-heeled subscribers include Dr. Joyce Brothers, Regis Philbin and Sally Jessy Raphael. After Joan Lunden mentioned Lazar's new mail-order catalog on Good Morning America two months ago, 80,000 viewers wrote to request the guide to discount suppliers of everything from wallpaper and pet food to boating equipment and books. Bubbles the publisher: "There is a movement growing in the country, a mini-revolution. Consumers are putting their feet down...