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First undercover agents, posing as clients, were sent to case the joint, an office on the fifth floor of a building next to Grand Central Station in New York City. Then prosecutors raided the premises -impounding two truckloads of evidence. Though it had the split-second timing of a narcotics...
And so it careers from cutesie-poo dream sequences to bondage-and-discipline revenge, from a giggly hen party to an answer to the working woman's prayer: a "liberated" work space, complete with racial harmony, reformed alcoholics, a day-care center and athletic amputees vaulting merrily from wheelchair...
Even in the more rational horse latitudes of Boston, balloonery is booming. Joanne Williams, a former producer of children's television shows, unleashed Balloons Over Boston 13 months ago, is already grossing $100,000 a year and expects to earn $250,000 next year. As the official balloon provider...
Segal writes screenplays, beautifully thin scripts for beautifully thin people to act in beautifully thin films. When he took his screenplay Love Story to Paramount Pictures more than a decade ago, they told him to turn it into a novel while they were making the film. The ruse worked, and...
Son of a well-to-do New York City hat manufacturer, Hy Tarnower (M.D., Syracuse University, '33) had quietly been practicing medicine in upper-income Scarsdale, seven miles from Purchase, when his diet book was published in January 1979. It quickly caught the fancy of weight-conscious Americans, selling...