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Barring an unforseen and unlikely catastrophe. Penn will cop this year's crown, its 10th in the last 17 years. Its only loss will have been to Harvard, but that means very little-last year's champions, the Tigers, lost to the Crimson twice...
William LeFevre, a vice president of Purcell, Graham, thinks that the Dow may crack 1400 before the bull market is over. "As for the time frame," he says, "we'll cop a plea, using that old bromide of successful Wall Streeters: 'If you're going to give them a date, don't give them a number, but if you're going to give them a number, don't give them a date...
...help give Actor Eddie Murphy an authentic street-smarts look, producers of the hit film Beverly Hills Cop attired their star in a faded T shirt marked MUMFORD PHYS. ED. DEPT. across the chest. Now the burgundy-lettered garment has become a hit in its own right. Swamped by requests for the shirts from Murphy's fans, Detroit's Samuel C. Mumford High School has turned to a national distributor to handle the demand. As of last week Artex Manufacturing of Overland Park, Kans., had received more than 24,000 orders for the shirt, which sells for around...
...shirt boom has been an unexpected boon to Mumford High, a virtually all- black public school in an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Detroit. The % garment was picked for the film by Jerry Bruckheimer, a Beverly Hills Cop producer and 1961 graduate of the school. Mumford plans to use profits from the shirt sales to buy new books, computers and athletic equipment. It will also share its good fortune with other schools in Detroit. Says Queen Loundmon, the activities director at Mumford High: "This has created a whole new kind of pride...
...police officers (John Getz and Kathryn Harrold) who are secretly married but continue to share a patrol car against department rules. Their deception gets fairly elaborate: they live in neighboring apartments, for example, that are connected by a hidden door in the bookcase. MacGruder & Loud goes through the cop-show motions, but the off-duty mush is clearly where its heart is set. You can't keep a good genre down. Reports of the sitcom's death, it turns out, were premature; all the genre needed was a healthy dose of adult writing, as proved by The Cosby Show...