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Former White House Counsel Fred Fielding was dragged into the growing mess by a member of the congressional panel, Representative Gerald Sikorski, Democrat from Minnesota. Sikorski charged that during a conflict-of-interest review of Deaver in February 1985, Fielding responded to a request from the Government Ethics Office by providing "incomplete information beneficial to Mr. Deaver" the day after an associate of Deaver's approached Fielding about going to work for Deaver's firm. Fielding denied that he had done anything improper...
...first football game (vs. McGill in 1874), the first large sports arena (the Stadium), the first catcher's mask (invented by Fred Thayer, Class of 1878), the first real intercollegiate athletic contest (Harvard crew vs. Yale crew on Lake Winnipesaukee, August...
...real life, Shadoe Stevens is a dapper and thoughtful man who left a job as a disk jockey to go into the more lucrative field of advertising. But to millions of TV viewers in California, Texas and Arizona, he is Fred Rated, the wild-and-crazy huckster who has appeared in some 800 commercials for the Federated Group, a Los Angeles-based electronics chain. In Stevens' wacky TV career, he has impersonated The Honeymooners' Ralph Kramden and Miami Vice's Sonny Crockett, played a man who gets attacked by rabid frogs and even starred as a Santa Claus who turns...
...success of Fred Rated and other weirdos like him has spurred more and more regional businesses to peddle their products with commercials that are goofy, whimsical and sometimes downright obnoxious. One of the pioneers in the field is Crazy Eddie, the New York-area consumer-electronics chain with the pitchman who raves about "insane" prices and "Christmas sales" in August. Instead of copying the slick style of the ad factories on Madison Avenue, local advertisers churn out low-budget affairs that they often write and produce themselves. Nothing is too ridiculous if it catches a viewer's attention: announcers attack...
Three of the new beefs are from crossbred animals. Brae comes from a conventional breed (Black Angus), but the herds are fed differently than most cattle. Developed by Fred Grant, a former banker, and named for his farm Windabrae (Scottish for windy slope), these cattle graze on grass for the first two years of life and are then fed a diet of high-quality silage and beer. Grant uses no growth hormones or other chemicals, and the meat contains 84% less fat and 43% fewer calories than regular beef. Cuts ordered by TIME from the Brae Beef Shop in Stamford...